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ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING AND COUNTER-TERRORISM FINANCING ACT 2006 - SECT 173

Simplified outline

    The following is a simplified outline of this Part:

  Pecuniary penalties are payable for contraventions of civil penalty provisions.

  Authorised officers, customs officers and police officers may issue infringement notices for unreported cross - border movements of monetary instruments.

  The AUSTRAC CEO is to monitor compliance by reporting entities with their obligations under this Act, the regulations and the AML/CTF Rules.

  The AUSTRAC CEO may give a remedial direction to a reporting entity that has contravened a civil penalty provision.

  The Federal Court may grant injunctions in relation to contraventions of civil penalty provisions.

  The AUSTRAC CEO may accept enforceable undertakings.

  Customs officers and police officers may exercise powers of questioning, search and arrest in connection with a cross - border movement of monetary instruments.



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