Part 2AML/CFT requirements and compliance
Prescribed transaction reports
48AReporting entities to report certain prescribed transactions
Despite any other enactment or rule of law, but subject to any regulations made under section 154, if a person conducts a prescribed transaction through a reporting entity, the reporting entity must (as soon as practicable, but not later than 20 working days after the transaction) report the transaction to the Commissioner in accordance with section 48B.
Nothing in subsection (1) requires any lawyer to disclose any privileged communication (as defined in section 42).
Notes
- Section 48A: inserted, on , by section 9 of the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Amendment Act 2015 (2015 No 96).
- Section 48A(1): amended, on , by section 13 of the Statutes Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 74).


