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Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act 2006
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The following is a simplified outline of this Act:
• A reporting entity is a person who provides designated services. (Designated services are listed in section 6.). Lead entities of certain business groups (known as reporting groups) are also reporting entities.
• A reporting entity must have and comply with an AML/CTF program.
• A reporting entity must undertake initial customer due diligence before providing a designated service to the customer. However, in special cases, initial customer due diligence may be carried out after the provision of the designated service.
• Certain pre‑commencement customers are subject to modified customer due diligence.
• Simplified customer due diligence may be undertaken in certain low risk circumstances as part of initial and ongoing customer due diligence.
• Reporting entities must report the following to the Chief Executive Officer of AUSTRAC (the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre):
(a) suspicious matters;
(b) certain transactions above a threshold.
• Certain information about international value transfer services must be reported to the AUSTRAC CEO.
• Cross‑border movements of monetary instruments must be reported to the AUSTRAC CEO, a customs officer or a police officer if the total amount moved is above a threshold.
• Transfers of value must include certain information about the origin of the transferred value.
• Providers of registrable remittance services or registrable remittance network services must be registered with the AUSTRAC CEO.
• Providers of registrable virtual asset services must be registered with the AUSTRAC CEO.
• Financial institutions are subject to restrictions in connection with entering into correspondent banking relationships.