Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act 2009

Enforcement - Offences - Other offences relating to non-compliance with AML/CFT requirements

101: Structuring transaction to avoid application of AML/CFT requirements

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"Breaking the law by changing transactions to avoid being caught"

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You commit an offence if you structure a transaction to avoid the law. This law is about stopping money laundering and terrorism financing. You do this by changing how a transaction happens. You can structure many types of transactions, like suspicious ones. This includes things that might seem normal but are actually suspicious. The law applies to these transactions. If you try to avoid the law by structuring a transaction, you can get in trouble. This is because the law wants to stop people from doing bad things with money. You must follow the law when doing transactions.

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Part 3Enforcement
Offences: Other offences relating to non-compliance with AML/CFT requirements

101Structuring transaction to avoid application of AML/CFT requirements

  1. A person commits an offence if the person structures a transaction (other than a transaction that involves the cross-border transportation of cash) to avoid the application of any AML/CFT requirements.

  2. For the purposes of this section, transaction includes, but is not limited to, a suspicious transaction or a prescribed transaction.

Notes
  • Section 101(2): inserted, on , by section 21 of the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Amendment Act 2015 (2015 No 96).