Section 135: Financial institution

Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 · 2002 c. 41View on legislation.gov.uk

Part 6: Immigration Procedure

The Secretary of State may require a financial institution to supply information about a person if the Secretary of State reasonably suspects that—

the person has committed an offence under section 105(1)(a), (b) or (c) or 106(1)(a), (b) or (c) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (c. 33) (support for asylum-seeker: fraud),
the information is relevant to the offence, and
the institution has the information.

In this section "financial institution" means—

a person who has permission under Part 4A of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (c. 8) to accept deposits, and
a building society (within the meaning given by the Building Societies Act 1986 (c. 53)).

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