Anti‑Money Laundering and Counter‑Terrorism Financing Transitional Amendment (Reporting Obligations) Rules 2026

I, Tony Burke, Minister for Home Affairs, make the following rules.

Dated 11 May 2026

Tony Burke

Minister for Home Affairs

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Anti‑Money Laundering and Counter‑Terrorism Financing Transitional Rules 2026

1  Name

  This instrument is the Anti‑Money Laundering and Counter‑Terrorism Financing Transitional Amendment (Reporting Obligations) Rules 2026.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under the Anti‑Money Laundering and Counter‑Terrorism Financing Amendment Act 2024.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Anti‑Money Laundering and Counter‑Terrorism Financing Transitional Rules 2026

1  Subsection 10(5)

Omit “Section 48A of the Principal Act”, substitute “Division 3A of Part 9 of the Anti‑Money Laundering and Counter‑Terrorism Financing Rules 2025”.

2  At the end of the instrument

Add:

Part 10—Application, saving and transitional provisions

21  Amendment made by Anti‑Money Laundering and Counter‑Terrorism Financing Transitional Amendment (Reporting Obligations) Rules 2026

  Subsection 10(5) of this instrument, as amended by the Anti‑Money Laundering and Counter‑Terrorism Financing Transitional Amendment (Reporting Obligations) Rules 2026, applies in relation to a report given to the AUSTRAC CEO whether the report was given before or after the amendment commenced.