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Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act 2006
39FExemption—intermediary institutions
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#### 39F Exemption—intermediary institutions
(1) Divisions 1 to 6 do not apply to a designated service covered by item 31 of table 1 in section 6.
> Note: Item 31 of table 1 in section 6 deals with an intermediary institution passing on a transfer message in a value transfer chain.
(2) A reporting entity must monitor its customers, in relation to the provision of a designated service covered by item 31 of table 1 in section 6 at or through a permanent establishment of the reporting entity in Australia, to identify unusual transactions and behaviours of the customers (within the meaning of section 30) that may give rise to a suspicious matter reporting obligation.
> Note: For suspicious matter reporting obligation, see section 41.
(3) Subsection (2) is a civil penalty provision.
(4) A reporting entity that contravenes subsection (2) commits a separate contravention of that subsection in respect of each designated service that the reporting entity provides to a customer.