Wednesday, January 11, 2012

OFFSHORE BANKING ACT of Belize


 Definition of offshore banking

“Offshore banking” or “offshore banking business” means:-

(a) receiving, borrowing or taking up foreign money exclusively

from non-residents at interest or otherwise on current account,

savings account, term deposit or other similar account and

which according and subject to arrangement is repayable on

the cheque, draft, order, authority or similar instrument of the

customer, and investing the foreign money so received by

lending, giving credit or otherwise exclusively to non-residents;

or

(b) carrying on exclusively with non-residents such other activities

as are customarily related or ancillary to off-shore banking.

(2) Paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (1) above do not include banking

business which is carried on with non-residents by banks licensed under the

Banks and Financial Institutions Act.

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