Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing (Financial Institutions)
Ordinance
Securities and Futures Commission to a person under this Ordinance as it applies in relation to the issuing or serving of a notice, direction or other document referred to in that section.
81. Legal professional privilege
(1) Subject to subsection (2), this Ordinance does not affect any claims, rights or entitlements that would, apart from this Ordinance, arise on the ground of legal professional privilege.
(2) Subsection (1) does not affect any requirement made under this Ordinance to disclose the name and address of a client of a legal practitioner (whether or not the legal practitioner is qualified in Hong Kong to practise as counsel or to act as a solicitor).
82. Transitional provision with regard to money changers and remittance agents carrying on business before commencement of this Ordinance
(1) A person whose name was entered in the register maintained under section 24B(2) of the pre-amended Organized and Serious Crimes Ordinance as a money changer immediately before the commencement date is, on that date, deemed to have been granted a licence to operate a money service at all the premises entered in the register immediately before that date as premises at which the person carries on business as a money changer, and this Ordinance applies to the person accordingly.
(2) A person whose name was entered in the register maintained under section 24B(2) of the pre-amended Organized and Serious Crimes Ordinance as a remittance agent immediately before the commencement date is, on that date, deemed to have been granted a licence to operate
