Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Act 2021

Amendment of section 33A of Act of 2010

7. Section 33A (inserted by section 12 of the Act of 2018) of the Act of 2010 is amended—

(a) in subsection (1)—

(i) in subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (a), by the substitution of “€150” for “€250”,

(ii) by the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (b):

“(b) the monetary value that may be stored electronically on the payment instrument concerned does not exceed €150,”,

(iii) in paragraph (e), by the deletion of “and”,

(iv) in paragraph (f), by the substitution of “€50, and” for “€100.”, and

(v) by the insertion of the following paragraph after paragraph (f):

“(g) the transaction concerned is not a remote payment transaction (within the meaning of Article 4 of Directive (EU) 2015/2366 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 20153 on payment services in the internal market, amending Directives 2002/65/EC, 2009/110/EC and 2013/36/EU and Regulation (EU) No. 1093/2010, and repealing Directive 2007/64/EC) of an amount exceeding €50.”,

and

(b) by the insertion of the following subsections after subsection (2):

“(3) A credit institution or financial institution acting as an acquirer shall not accept a payment carried out with an anonymous prepaid card issued in a state other than a Member State unless the payment instrument concerned complies with the requirements of subsections (1) and (2).

(4) A person who fails to comply with subsection (3) commits an offence and is liable—

(i) on summary conviction, to a class A fine or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months, or both, or

(ii) on conviction on indictment, to a fine or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 5 years, or both.”.

3 OJ No. L337, 23.12.2015, p.35