Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing (Financial Institutions)
Ordinance
- (b) a spouse, a partner, a child or a parent of an individual falling within paragraph (a), or a spouse or a partner of a child of such an individual; or
- (c) a close associate of an individual falling within paragraph (a);
pre-existing customer (先前客戶), in relation to a financial institution, means a customer with whom the financial institution has established a business relationship before the date of commencement of this Ordinance;
public body (公共機構) includes—
- (a) any executive, legislative, municipal or urban council;
- (b) any Government department or undertaking;
- (c) any local or public authority or undertaking;
- (d) any board, commission, committee or other body, whether paid or unpaid, appointed by the Chief Executive or the Government; and
- (e) any board, commission, committee or other body that has power to act in a public capacity under or for the purposes of any enactment.
(2) For the purposes of paragraph (b) of the definition of politically exposed person in subsection (1), a person is a partner of an individual if the person is considered by the law of the place where the person and the individual live together as equivalent to a spouse of the individual.
(3) For the purposes of paragraph (c) of the definition of politically exposed person in subsection (1), a person is a close associate of an individual if the person is—
- (a) an individual who has close business relations with the first-mentioned individual, including an individual who is a beneficial owner of a legal person or trust of which the first-mentioned individual is also a beneficial owner; or
