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Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act 2006
63AKey terms relating to transfers of value
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#### 63A Key terms relating to transfers of value
Ordering institutions
(1) Whether a person is an ordering institution is to be determined in accordance with the AML/CTF Rules.
(2) Without limiting subsection (1), AML/CTF Rules made for the purposes of that subsection may specify the following:
(a) criteria or other requirements that a person must satisfy to be an ordering institution;
(b) circumstances in which a person is an ordering institution.
(4) However, none of the following persons are an ordering institution:
(a) a person who transfers value in circumstances where the transfer is reasonably incidental to the provision of another service unless:
(i) the person is a financial institution; or
(ii) the person is providing an international value transfer service incidentally to a designated service covered by item 50, 50A or 50B of table 1 in section 6; or
(iii) the person is providing an international value transfer service incidentally to a designated service covered by table 3 in section 6;
(b) a person specified in the AML/CTF Rules.
Beneficiary institutions
(5) Whether a person is a beneficiary institution is to be determined in accordance with the AML/CTF Rules.
(6) Without limiting subsection (5), AML/CTF Rules made for the purposes of that subsection may specify the following:
(a) criteria or other requirements that a person must satisfy to be a beneficiary institution;
(b) circumstances in which a person is a beneficiary institution.
(8) However, none of the following persons are a beneficiary institution:
(a) a person who makes value available in circumstances where the making available of the value is reasonably incidental to the provision of another service unless:
(i) the person is a financial institution;
(ii) the person is providing an international value transfer service incidentally to a designated service covered by item 50, 50A or 50B of table 1 in section 6;
(iii) the person is providing an international value transfer service incidentally to a designated service covered by table 3 in section 6;
(b) a person specified in the AML/CTF Rules.
Intermediary institution
(9) A person is an intermediary institution if the person:
(a) in the course of carrying on a business, receives and passes on a transfer message for a transfer of value in a value transfer chain; or
(b) is specified in the AML/CTF Rules.
(10) However, none of the following persons are an intermediary institution:
(a) a person who solely provides the infrastructure that permits persons to send transfer messages for a transfer of value to another person in the value transfer chain;
(b) a person who is specified in the AML/CTF Rules.
Value transfer chain
(11) The following persons are taken to form a value transfer chain:
(a) the ordering institution;
(b) each intermediary institution (if any) between the ordering institution and the beneficiary institution;
(c) the beneficiary institution.
Institutions
(12) Each person in a value transfer chain is an institution.
Payer and payee may be same person etc.
(13) For the purposes of this Act:
(a) the payer and the payee in relation to a transfer of value may be the same person; and
(b) the ordering institution and the beneficiary institution in relation to a transfer of value may be the same person.