2018 No. I ordt~r; (i) operating any account affected hy the or ( ii) opening any account with same or any other tiuancial institution; aml (b) the financial institution where the account of the sanctioned person is held hom authorising or executing any transactions through that account. whether at the instance of the sanctioned person or not; without the exprt~ss approval of the Director gi,en subject to the specified by. the Director. condition~ (S) Within twenty -one days of the granting of a freaing order or such other period as the court may direct, notice of the order shall be serred on all persons known to the Director to have an interest in the funds affected by the order, and such other persons as the com1 may direct. (9) Subject to subsection (l 0), the Director shall not, in relation to the same sanctioned person and to the same account or accounts, make more than two temporary freezing orders in any period of twelve months. ( lO) If. within any period of twelve months, the need arises for any account of a sanctioned person to he frozen alter it has been temporarily frozen twice within that period, the Director shall apply to a magistrate's court for a freezing order in accordance "ith the following subsections. ( 11) An application for a freezing order shall be in writing and shall he supporkd hy an affidavit of the Director indicating that the Director believes, and the grounds for his or her belief. that the account is concemed in any violation of or being used for violating any cited provision of this ..:\ct, the Exchange Control Act [Chapter 22:051 or the .Money Laundering Act, which application may(a) be made ex parte and without notice, if the Director sets forth in his or her affidavit reasonable grounds for believing that the giving of notice to any atfccted party is likely to prejudice the purpose for which the application is sought; (b) include an application for an order by the court limiting or restricting attendance at the court and publication of its proceedings in terms of the Com1s and Adjudicating Authorities (Publicity Restriction) Act [ChapTer 7:04]. ( 12) Subsections (h), (7) and (8) apply also to any order applied for under subsection ( 11 ).''; (h) by the repeal of section -l-9 and the substitution of-· "49 Amnesty for breaches of sections 10 and 11 ( 1) A.n anmest y for any contravention of section l 0 or 11 shall come into force in accordance \Vith the tem1s of the Schedule. (2) Suhject to the Schedule, this section and the Schcduk shall be deemed to be repealed on the I st April, 20 l S."; (i) the principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following schedule after the Third Schedule- -l-2

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