Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)

This amendment was made to section 33, in Chapter 3 of the Bill, which relates to customer due diligence. Section 33(1)(d) provides that the identification and verification measures set out in section 33(2) must be applied before a service is carried out for a customer, if the designated person has reasonable grounds to doubt the veracity or adequacy of documents or information previously obtained relating to the verification of the customer. The amendment will ensure there is no question of whether the section applies to documents or information obtained before the commencement of section 33 of the Bill. It replaces the original section 33(1)(d) of the Bill. It states that the relevant documents or information may be obtained under section 33; under section 32 of the Criminal Justice Act 1994, which sets out the current requirements in relation to identification and verification; or under any administrative arrangements that a person may have applied before section 32 of the 1994 Act operated in relation to that person. The amendment also inserts a new section 33(1)(d)(ii), which reflects the fact that a designated person may, in the meantime, have obtained other relevant documents or information - not those which may have caused the doubt in the first instance - which adequately verify the identity of the customer.

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