TCI: Declarations of Income, Assets and Liabilities

#Providenciales, May 31, 2019 – Turks and Caicos – The Integrity Commission wishes to inform the public and, in particular, to remind the Specified Persons in Public Life (Declarants), as set out below, that they must file their Declarations of Income, Assets and Liabilities, as required by Section 39 of the TCI Integrity Commission Ordinance, on or before June 30, 2019.

These Specified Persons in Public Life include the following:

• All Specified Persons in Public Life who made their last filing on or before June 30, 2017.
• All persons who are appointed to Statutory Boards, effective April 1, 2019, or thereafter.
• All Specified Persons in Public Life who are appointed, within the TCIG Government, effective April 1, 2019, or thereafter.
• All persons who are no longer sitting members of Statutory Boards, as at March 31, 2019.
• All persons who have resigned their posts, or whose contracts have not been renewed, within the TCIG Government, are required to file within 90 days of the end of their tenure.
• All other persons who are considered Specified Persons in Public Life, but who would not have been aware of their obligation to file, under section 39 the Integrity Commission Ordinance.

Declaration Forms are available at the Commission’s Offices in Grand Turk and Providenciales, or are downloadable from the Commission’s website at: www.integritycommission.tc.

All Declarants are required to deliver their completed Declaration forms, along with the relevant supporting documents, in person, at an office of the Commission.

All Declarations are confidential documents. Please DO NOT submit your completed Declaration form through a third party, OR via electronic or surface mail. 

Please be reminded that a failure, without reasonable cause, to file a Declaration is a criminal offence, punishable with imprisonment for 1 year, or a fine of $15,000, or both. In addition, the Commission is, among other things, obligated to publish the fact of such failure in the Gazette.

The Commission may publish, in the Gazette, the names of those persons who have failed to file by June 30, 2019. In any event that the Commission is unable to contact any Specified Persons in Public Life by direct email, or by telephone, the Commission will not be held responsible for a failure on the part of that person to file.

Persons who have filed a Declaration during calendar year 2018, will NOT be required to file in 2019.

Additionally, the Integrity Commission will be conducting ORIENTATION SESSIONS for all new first-time TCI Government Board Members, and new Government Employees, who are designated as Specified Persons in Public Life, as is specified in Schedule 1 to the Integrity Commission Ordinance.

The Integrity Commission will conduct four (4) Orientation Sessions. They will be convened at the places, dates and times that are indicated as follows:   

Grand Turk – Integrity Commission Office, Franklyn Missick’s Building, Church Folly; Tuesday June 4, 2019 and Wednesday June 5, 2019, from 9am – 11am.

Providenciales – Integrity Commission Office, C206 Cabot House, Leeward Highway (within the IGA Compound, above the Flamingo Pharmacy); Thursday June 6, 2019 and Friday June 7, 2019, from 9am – 11am.

All new first-time TCI Government Board Members, and new Government Employees, who are designated as Specified Persons in Public Life, are invited to attend any ONE of these sessions. Specifically, these invitations are being directed towards the following listed persons, who are Specified Persons in Public Life, as first-time TCI Government Board Members, and new Government Employees:

The Commission kindly requests that persons whose names appear on the aforementioned  list should confirm the date and time of their intended attendance at one of the Orientation Sessions.

Confirmation may be done via email to complianceofficer@integritycommission.tc, or via telephone at 1-649-338-3333 or 1-649-946-1941.

This Public Notice, to the named Declarants, of the convening by the Commission of its Orientation Sessions, is a ‘last ditch effort’ to contact the Declarants. Other efforts by the Commission’s Compliance Department to make contact have failed.

Should you have any queries, please feel free to telephone the Commission’s Senior Compliance  Office in the Commission’s Grand Turk Office at 1-649-338-3336, or to visit the Commission’s Grand Turk Office, or its Providenciales Office, at your convenience, between the hours of 8.30am and 4.30pm, on Mondays to Thursdays, or between the hours of 8.30am and 4.00pm, on Fridays.

Respectfully yours,

­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­Greg Christie

Director, TCI Integrity Commission