Section 166Part 6 — Forfeiture of Cash and Property
Customer information orders
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A judge may, on an application made to that judge by an appropriate officer, make a customer information order if that judge is satisfied that each of the requirements set out in subsection (3) for the making of the order is fulfilled.
A “ customer information order ” is an order that a financial insti tution covered by the application for the order shall, on being required to do so by notice in writing given by an appropriate officer, provide any such customer information as it has relating to the person specified in the application.
The application for a customer information order shall state that —
a person specified in the application is subject to a confiscation investigation or a money laundering investigation; or
property specified in the application is subject to a civil recovery inves tigation and a person specified in the application appears to hold the property;
the order is sought for the purposes of the investigation; and
the order is sought against the financial institution or financial institutions specified in the application.
An application for a customer information order may specify —
all financial institutions;
a particular description, or particular descriptions, of financial institutions; or
a particular financial institution or particular fina ncial institutions.
A financial institution which is required to provide information under a customer information order shall provide the information to an appropriate officer in such manner, and at or by such time, as an appropriate officer requires.
Where a financial institution on which a requirement is imposed by a notice given under a customer information order requires the production of evidence of authority to give the notice, it is not bound to comply with the requirement unless evidence of the authority has been produced to it.
Where a judge makes a customer information order under this section, the order need not be served on the person who is under investigation.
For purposes of clarification it is declared that nothing in this sec tion limits any power under any Law to obtain information referred to in this section or its provision on a voluntary basis.