This amendment updates the NGOs Act, adds new definitions for financial-intelligence and financing terms, and adds a new monitoring-related paragraph in section 7.
Non-Governmental Organisations (Amendment) [No. 13 of 2020 255 GOVERNMENT OF ZAMBIA ACT No. 13 of 2020 Date of Assent: 30th November, 2020 An Act to amend the Non-Governmental Organisations Act, 2009. [2nd December, 2020 ENACTED by the Parliament of Zambia. 1. This Act may be cited as the Non-Governmental Organisations (Amendment) Act, 2020, and shall be read as one with the Non-Governmental Organisations Act, 2009, in this Act referred to as the principal Act. 2. Section 4 of the Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following new definition: Enactment Short title Act No. 16 of 2009 Amendment of section 4 “Financial Intelligence Centre” means the Financial Intelligence Centre established under the Financial Intelligence Centre Act, 2010; Act No. 46 of 2010 “proliferation financing” has the meaning assigned to the words of the Anti-Terrorism and Non-Proliferation Act, 2018; “serious offence” has the meaning assigned to the words in the Forfeiture of Proceeds of Crime Act, 2010; and “terrorism financing” has the meaning assigned to the words in the Anti-Terrorism and Non-Proliferation Act, 2018. 3. Section 7 of the principal Act is amended by the— (a) insertion of the following new paragraph immediately after paragraph (b): (c) in consultation with the Financial Intelligence Centre, implement measures for monitoring the risk of the use of non-governmental organisations in terrorism financing, proliferation financing or financing of any other related serious offence as prescribed; and Act No. 6 of 2018 Act No. 19 of 2010 Act No. 6 of 2018 Amendment of section 7 Single copies of this Act may be obtained from the Government Printer, P.O. Box 30136, 10101 Lusaka, Price K4.00 each. 250 No. 13 of 2020] Non-Governmental Organisations (Amendment) (b) the renumbering of paragraphs (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), (h), (i), (j) and (k) as paragraphs (d), (e), (f), (g), (h), (i), (j), (k) and (l), respectively.