Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act 2009

AML/CFT requirements and compliance - Customer due diligence - Enhanced customer due diligence

27A: Other identifying information prescribed in relation to wire transfers

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You need to know some information when sending money by wire transfer. This includes the name of the person getting the money and their account number. It also includes a special code that helps track the transaction, as stated in section 27(1)(d). You also need information that helps identify who sent the money in New Zealand. This information is required for section 27(2).

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Customer due diligence: Enhanced customer due diligence

27AOther identifying information prescribed in relation to wire transfers

  1. Information that gives the name of the beneficiary of a wire transfer and the account number of that beneficiary or any unique transaction reference that allows the transaction to be traced is prescribed for the purposes of section 27(1)(d).

  2. In the case of a domestic wire transfer, any information that enables the transaction itself to be identified and traced to the originator is prescribed to be other identifying information for the purposes of section 27(2).

Notes
  • Section 27A: inserted, on , by section 18 of the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Amendment Act 2017 (2017 No 35).