Explanatory note

This note is not part of the regulations, but is intended to indicate their general effect.

These regulations, which come into force on 16 October 2010, prescribe the amount $9,999.99 for the purposes of Part 2 of the Financial Transactions Reporting Act 1996 (the Act).

Consequently, if the amount of cash involved in a transaction or transactions exceeds $9,999.99, a financial institution must, in certain circumstances specified in Part 2 of the Act, verify the identity of the person conducting the transaction and, if applicable, the person on whose behalf the transaction is conducted.

These regulations re-enact unchanged the amount prescribed for Part 2 of the Act by the Financial Transactions Reporting (Prescribed Amount) Regulations 1996, but prescribe no amount for Part 5 (obligation to report imports and exports of cash) of the Act. That is because that Part is, on 16 October 2010, repealed by section 163, and replaced by subpart 6 of Part 2, of the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act 2009. The threshold value $9,999.99, and its application, are prescribed for purposes of that subpart by the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism (Cross-border Transportation of Cash) Regulations 2010, which also come into force on 16 October 2010.