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2021/147 Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism (Requirements and Compliance) Amendment Regulations 2021 Patsy Reddy, Governor-General Order in Council At Wellington this 8th day of June 2021 Present: The Right Hon Jacinda Ardern presiding in Council These regulations are made under sections 59(2) and 153 of the Anti-Money Launder‐ ing and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act 2009 on the advice and with the con‐ sent of the Executive Council.
Contents Title Commencement Principal regulations Regulation 3 replaced (Interpretation) 3 Interpretation New regulations 11 to 13 inserted 11 12 13 Information requirement for standard customer due diligence: existence of nominee directors or shareholders Enhanced customer due diligence required for companies with nominee directors Time period for audit of risk assessment and AML/CFT programme Page 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 4 1 r 1 1 2 3 4 3 Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism (Requirements and Compliance) Amendment Regulations 2021 2021/147 Regulations Title These regulations are the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism (Requirements and Compliance) Amendment Regulations 2021.
Commencement These regulations come into force on 9 July 2021.

Principal regulations These regulations amend the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Finan‐ cing of Terrorism (Requirements and Compliance) Regulations 2011.
Regulation 3 replaced (Interpretation) Replace regulation 3 with: Interpretation In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires,— Act means the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act 2009 nominee director means an individual who is a director of a company within the meaning of section 126 of the Companies Act 1993 and who is required to carry out or accustomed to carrying out the role of director in accordance with the directions or instructions of another person who is not a director of the company nominee general partner means a person who is a general partner of a limited partnership within the meaning of section 19 of the Limited Partnerships Act 2008 and who is required to carry out or accustomed to carrying out the role of general partner in accordance with the directions or instructions of another per‐ son who is not a general partner of the limited partnership nominee shareholder means a person who is a shareholder of a company within the meaning of section 96 of the Companies Act 1993 and who is required to carry out or accustomed to carrying out the role of shareholder in accordance with the directions or instructions of another person who is not a shareholder of the company, but does not include— (a) (b) a shareholder of a customer listed in section 18(2) of the Act; or a shareholder who is a trustee of an employee share purchase scheme within the meaning of section 6(1) of the Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013.
5 New regulations 11 to 13 inserted After regulation 10, insert: 2 2021/147 Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism (Requirements and Compliance) Amendment Regulations 2021 r 5 11 (1) Information requirement for standard customer due diligence: existence of nominee directors or shareholders The following are prescribed under section 15(f) of the Act as identity informa‐ tion a reporting entity must obtain in relation to the persons referred to in sec‐ tion 11(1)(a) of the Act: (a) whether the person is a company, and, if so, the existence and name of any of the following: (i) (ii) nominee director: nominee shareholder: (b) whether the person is a limited partnership or overseas limited partner‐ ship, and, if so, the existence and name of any nominee general partner.
(2) Verification of the identity information provided under subclause (1) may be undertaken on the following bases prescribed under sections 13(b) and 16(1)(d) of the Act: (a) in relation to the information provided under subclause (1)(a), the report‐ ing entity— (i) (ii) must, according to the level of risk involved, take reasonable steps to verify the existence and name of any nominee director or nom‐ inee shareholder so that the reporting entity is satisfied that it knows that information; but is not required to verify this information on the basis of docu‐ ments, data, or information issued by a reliable and independent source: (b) in relation to the information provided under subclause (1)(b), the reporting entity— (i) (ii) must, according to the level of risk involved, take reasonable steps to verify the existence and name of any nominee general partner so that the reporting entity is satisfied that it knows that informa‐ tion; but is not required to verify this information on the basis of docu‐ ments, data, or information issued by a reliable and independent source.
12 Enhanced customer due diligence required for companies with nominee directors A reporting entity must conduct enhanced customer due diligence in accord‐ ance with sections 23 and 24 of the Act if the reporting entity establishes a business relationship with a customer that is— (a) a company with 1 or more nominee directors; or 3 Explanatory note Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism (Requirements and Compliance) Amendment Regulations 2021 2021/147 (b) a nominee general partner of a limited partnership or overseas limited partnership.
13 Time period for audit of risk assessment and AML/CFT programme For the purposes of section 59(2) of the Act, the time period during which a reporting entity (other than a high-value dealer) must ensure that its risk assess‐ ment and AML/CFT programme are audited is— (a) every 4 years, if the reporting entity’s AML/CFT supervisor notifies the reporting entity that a 4-year period applies; or (b) in any other case, every 3 years.

Michael Webster, Clerk of the Executive Council.


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 9 July 2021, amend the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism (Requirements and Compliance) Regulations 2011 by inserting new regulations that— • • • require a reporting entity to obtain information about whether a person on whom it is conducting customer due diligence under the Anti-Money Launder‐ ing and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act 2009 (the Act) has nominee directors and nominee shareholders: require a reporting entity to conduct enhanced customer due diligence under the Act if it establishes a business relationship with a customer that has a nom‐ inee director or a nominee general partner: replace the 2-year time period during which a reporting entity must ensure that its risk assessment and AML/CFT programme are audited under section 59(2) of the Act with a new default time period of 3 years, with the possibility of a 4- year time period upon notification by a reporting entity’s AML/CFT super‐ visor.
Regulatory impact assessment The Ministry of Justice produced a regulatory impact assessment on 11 March 2020 to help inform the decisions taken by the Government relating to the contents of this instrument.
A copy of this regulatory impact assessment can be found at— https://www.justice.govt.nz/assets/Documents/Publications/RIA-AMLCFT- Expiring-Regulations.pdf • 4 2021/147 Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism (Requirements and Compliance) Amendment Regulations 2021 Explanatory note • http://www.treasury.govt.nz/publications/informationreleases/ria Issued under the authority of the Legislation Act 2012.

Date of notification in Gazette: 10 June 2021.


These regulations are administered by the Ministry of Justice.

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