Labuan Financial Services Authority Act 1996 · Updated to 1 Dec 2011 · Part II · The Authority
3. The Authority and its objectives
Official textFrom Laws of Malaysia Online, unchanged
There is hereby established a body corporate by the name of
“Labuan Financial Services Authority” with perpetual succession and a common seal, which may sue and be sued in its name and, subject to and for the purposes of this Act, may enter into contracts and may acquire, purchase, take, hold and enjoy movable and immovable property of every description and may convey, assign, surrender, yield up, charge, mortgage, demise, reassign, transfer or otherwise dispose of, or deal with, any movable or immovable property or any interest therein vested in the Authority upon such terms as it deems fit.
Labuan financial services
“Labuan financial services” means any service provided by any person under any of the laws specified in the Schedule;
The objectives of the Authority are—
Authority
“Authority” means the Labuan Financial Services Authority established under section 3;
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to promote and develop Labuan as an international centre for business and financial services;
to develop national objectives, policies and priorities for the orderly development and administration of the international business and financial services in Labuan;
and
to act as the central regulatory, supervisory and enforcement authority of the international business and financial services industry in Labuan.
Terms defined in this Act
Authority
Defined · s 2“Authority” means the Labuan Financial Services Authority established under section 3;
Labuan
Defined · s 2“Labuan” means the Federal Territory of Labuan; Labuan Financial Services Authority 9
Labuan financial services
Defined · s 2“Labuan financial services” means any service provided by any person under any of the laws specified in the Schedule;
property
Defined · s 28A“property” means— (a) assets of every kind, whether corporeal or incorporeal, moveable or immoveable, tangible or intangible, however acquired; and (b) legal documents or instruments in any form evidencing title to or interest in the assets referred to in paragraph (a), including bank cheques, money orders, shares, securities, bonds, drafts and letters of credit. Submission of information