Human Resources

(a) appoint, lay off or terminate the employment of the employees of the Centre; and

(b) establish standards, procedures and processes governing staffing, including the appointment, lay-off or termination of the employment of employees otherwise than for cause.

(a) determine the organization of and classify the positions in the Centre;

(b) set the terms and conditions of employment for employees, including termination of employment for cause, and assign to them their duties;

(c) notwithstanding section 56 of the Public Service Staff Relations Act, in accordance with the mandate approved by the Treasury Board, fix the remuneration of the employees of the Centre; and

(d) provide for any other matters that the Director considers necessary for effective personnel management in the Centre.

Authority to Provide Services

Disclosure of Information

Reports and Information

(a) shall receive reports made under section 7, 9, 12 or 20, incomplete reports sent under subsection 14(5), information provided to the Centre by any agency of another country that has powers and duties similar to those of the Centre, information provided to the Centre by law enforcement agencies or government institutions or agencies and other information about suspicions of money laundering that is voluntarily provided to the Centre;

(b) may collect information that the Centre considers relevant to money laundering activities and that is publicly available, including commercially available databases, or that is stored in databases maintained by the federal or provincial governments for purposes related to law enforcement and in respect of which an agreement was entered into under subsection 66(1);

(c) shall analyse and assess the reports and information; and

(d) subject to section 6 of the Privacy Act, shall retain each report and all information for a minimum of five years and a maximum of eight years after the report is received or the information is received or collected.

Disclosure and Use of Information

(a) information set out in a report made under section 7;

(b) information set out in a report made under section 9;

(c) information set out in a report made under subsection 12(1), whether or not it is completed, or section 20;

(d) information about suspicions of money laundering that is provided voluntarily to the Centre;

(e) information prepared by the Centre from information referred to in paragraphs (a) to (d); or

(f) any other information, other than publicly available information, obtained in the administration or enforcement of this Part.

(a) any person who, in the course of exercising powers or performing duties or functions under this Part, obtained or has or had access to information referred to in subsection (1); and

(b) any person or an employee of any person with whom the Centre enters into a contract, memorandum of understanding or other agreement for the provision of goods or services.

(a) the appropriate police force;

(b) the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency, if the Centre also determines that the information is relevant to an offence of evading or attempting to evade paying taxes or duties imposed under an Act of Parliament administered by the Minister of National Revenue;

(c) the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, if the Centre also determines that the information is relevant to threats to the security of Canada within the meaning of section 2 of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act; and

(d) the Department of Citizenship and Immigration, if the Centre also determines that the information would promote the objective set out in paragraph 3(j) of the Immigration Act and is relevant to determining whether a person is a person described in subsection 19(1) or (2) or section 27 of that Act or to an offence under section 94.1, 94.2, 94.4, 94.5 or 94.6 of that Act.

(a) the Centre has reasonable grounds to suspect that the information would be relevant to the investigation or prosecution of a money laundering offence or a substantially similar offence; and

(b) the Minister has, in accordance with subsection 56(1), entered into an agreement or arrangement with that foreign state or international organization regarding the exchange of such information.

(a) the Centre has reasonable grounds to suspect that the information would be relevant to the investigation or prosecution of a money laundering offence or a substantially similar offence; and

(b) the Centre has, in accordance with subsection 56(2), entered into an agreement or arrangement with that institution or agency regarding the exchange of such information.

(a) the name of the client or of the importer or exporter, or any person acting on their behalf;

(b) the name and address of the place of business where the transaction occurred or the address of the customs office where the importation or exportation occurred, and the date the transaction, importation or exportation occurred;

(c) the amount and type of currency or monetary instruments involved or, in the case of a transaction, if no currency or monetary instruments are involved, the value of the transaction or the value of the funds that are the subject of the transaction;

(d) in the case of a transaction, the transaction number and the account number, if any; and

(e) any other similar information that may be prescribed.

(a) inform persons and entities that have provided a report under section 7 or 9 about measures that have been taken with respect to reports of transactions under those sections;

(b) conduct research into trends and developments in the area of money laundering and improved ways of detecting, preventing and deterring money laundering; and

(c) undertake measures to inform the public, persons and entities referred to in section 5, authorities engaged in the investigation and prosecution of money laundering offences and others with respect to

(i) their obligations under this Act,

(ii) the nature and extent of money laundering in Canada, and

(iii) measures that have been or might be taken to detect, prevent and deter money laundering in Canada, and the effectiveness of those measures.

(a) the offence under investigation;

(b) the person in relation to whom the information or documents referred to in paragraph (c) are required;

(c) the type of information or documents - whether in written form, in the form of a report or record or in any other form - obtained by or on behalf of the Director in respect of which disclosure is sought;

(d) the facts relied on to justify the belief, on reasonable grounds, that the person referred to in paragraph (b) has committed or benefited from the commission of a money laundering offence and that the information or documents referred to in paragraph (c) are likely to be of substantial value, whether alone or together with other material, to an investigation in respect of that offence;

(e) a summary of any information already received from the Centre in respect of the offence; and

(f) information respecting all previous applications brought under this section in respect of any person being investigated for the offence.

(a) of the matters referred to in paragraph (3)(d); and

(b) that there are reasonable grounds for believing that it is in the public interest to allow access to the information or documents, having regard to the benefit likely to accrue to the investigation if the access is obtained.