Part 2AML/CFT requirements and compliance
Compliance with AML/CFT requirements
57Minimum requirements for AML/CFT programmes
A reporting entity’s AML/CFT programme must be in writing and be based on the risk assessment undertaken in accordance with section 58 and include adequate and effective procedures, policies, and controls for—
- vetting—
- senior managers:
- the AML/CFT compliance officer:
- any other employee that is engaged in AML/CFT related duties; and
- senior managers:
- training on AML/CFT matters for the following employees:
- senior managers:
- the AML/CFT compliance officer:
- any other employee that is engaged in AML/CFT related duties; and
- senior managers:
- complying with customer due diligence requirements (including ongoing customer due diligence and account monitoring); and
- reporting suspicious activities; and
- reporting prescribed transactions; and
- record keeping; and
- setting out what the reporting entity needs to do, or continue to do, to manage and mitigate the risks of money laundering and the financing of terrorism; and
- examining, and keeping written findings relating to,—
- complex or unusually large transactions; and
- unusual patterns of transactions that have no apparent economic or visible lawful purpose; and
- any other activity that the reporting entity regards as being particularly likely by its nature to be related to money laundering or the financing of terrorism; and
- complex or unusually large transactions; and
- monitoring, examining, and keeping written findings relating to business relationships and transactions from or in countries that do not have or have insufficient anti-money laundering or countering financing of terrorism systems in place and have additional measures for dealing with or restricting dealings with such countries; and
- preventing the use, for money laundering or the financing of terrorism, of products (for example, the misuse of technology) and transactions (for example, non-face-to-face business relationships or transactions) that might favour anonymity; and
- determining when enhanced customer due diligence is required and when simplified customer due diligence might be permitted; and
- providing when a person who is not the reporting entity may, and setting out the procedures for the person to, conduct the relevant customer due diligence on behalf of the reporting entity; and
- monitoring and managing compliance with, and the internal communication of and training in, those procedures, policies, and controls.
In developing an AML/CFT programme, a reporting entity must have regard to any applicable guidance material produced by AML/CFT supervisors or the Commissioner relating to AML/CFT programmes.
Notes
- Section 57(1): amended, on , by section 28(1) of the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Amendment Act 2017 (2017 No 35).
- Section 57(1)(d): amended, on , by section 28(2) of the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Amendment Act 2017 (2017 No 35).
- Section 57(1)(da): inserted, on , by section 10 of the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Amendment Act 2015 (2015 No 96).
- Section 57(2): inserted, on , by section 28(3) of the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Amendment Act 2017 (2017 No 35).


