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Islamic Financial Services Act 2013 · s 145

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s 145Secrecy

(1)

No person who has access to any document or information relating to the affairs or account of any customer of an Islamic financial institution, including—

(a)

the Islamic financial institution; or

(b)

any person who is or has been a director, officer or agent of the Islamic financial institution, shall disclose to another person any document or information relating to the affairs or account of any customer of the Islamic financial institution.

(2)

Subsection (1) shall not apply to any document or information relating to the affairs or account of any customer of an Islamic financial institution—

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(a)

that is disclosed to the Bank, any officer of the Bank or any person appointed under this Act or the Central Bank of

Malaysia Act 2009 for the purposes of exercising any powers or functions of the Bank under this Act or the

Central Bank of Malaysia Act 2009;

(b)

that is in the form of a summary or collection of information set out in such manner as does not enable information relating to any particular customer of the Islamic financial institution to be ascertained from it; or

(c)

that is at the time of disclosure is, or has already been made lawfully available to the public from any source other than the Islamic financial institution.

(3)

No person who has any document or information which to his knowledge has been disclosed in contravention of subsection (1) shall disclose the same to any other person.

(4)

Any person who contravenes subsection (1) or (3) commits an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or to a fine not exceeding ten million ringgit or to both.