(ii) any person who is related to an administrator by marriage, blood or kinship up to the
second degree, including adopted children or foster children of the administrator, and any other person
residing in the administrator's household;
(iii) any person who has a qualifying holding in the bank, and any undertaking in which any such person
or any administrator of the bank has a qualifying holding, and any administrator of such person or
undertaking; and
(iv) any undertaking, not subject to consolidation in the preparation of financial statements of the bank, in
which the bank holds a qualifying holding, and any administrator of such undertaking;
"representative office" means a place of business forming a legally dependent part of a bank where
activities are limited to the provision of information and liaison functions, and where no banking business
is conducted and no deposits or other repayable funds may be received from the public;
"senior bank official" means a person (other than an administrator) who holds the title or, without regard
to title, performs the functions of one or more of the following positions at a domestic bank or, in the case
of a foreign bank, a branch in Iraq: chairman, director general, general manager, president, chief
executive officer, chief operating officer, chief financial officer, chief lending officer, or chief investment
officer. "Senior bank official" also includes any other person who is required by the CBI to comply with
the requirements of paragraph
(4) of Article 18 of this Law.
"subsidiary" means any juridical person in which another person or group of persons acting in concert
holds the equivalent of fifty percent or more of the voting shares of such juridical person; or a qualifying
holding that permits such other person or group of persons to exercise effective control over the
management or policies of the juridical person in which the holding exists;
"Tribunal" or "Financial Services Tribunal" means the Financial Services Tribunal established in the
Central Bank of Iraq Law.
Article 2 Regulatory objectives
1
The primary regulatory objective of this Law is to maintain confidence in the banking
system. Other regulatory objectives include those of promoting public understanding of the banking
system by providing appropriate information, maintaining an appropriate degree of protection for
depositors, and helping to reduce financial crime, including fraud, money-laundering and terrorist
financing.
2
The CBI shall discharge its functions in a way which is compatible with the regulatory
objectives and which the CBI considers most appropriate for the purpose of meeting those objectives.
Actions by an entity of the government other than the CBI that affects a matter subject to the jurisdiction
of the CBI shall be without legal force.