Money Laundering Regulations: application for Fit and Proper test (MLR101)

From: HM Revenue & Customs

First published: 4 April 2014

Last updated: 28 June 2016, see all updates

Part of: Money Laundering Regulations: forms and guidance and Money laundering regulations

Only money service businesses or trust or company service providers should use form MLR101 to apply for a Fit and Proper test under Money Laundering Regulations.

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Money Laundering Regulations (MLR) Application for Fit and Proper test

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Use form MLR101 to apply for the Fit and Proper test as part of your registration with HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) under the Money Laundering Regulations.

Published: 4 April 2014

Updated: 28 June 2016

From: HM Revenue & Customs

Part of: Money Laundering Regulations: forms and guidance

Money Laundering Regulations: introduction

From: HM Revenue & Customs

First published: 23 October 2014

Part of: Money laundering regulations

Who the Money Laundering Regulations apply to and what they mean for your business.

Contents

1.    Overview

2.    Who the Money Laundering Regulations apply to

3.    Anti money laundering controls and monitoring

4.    Reporting suspicious activity

Overview

Money laundering means exchanging money or assets that were obtained criminally for money or other assets that are ‘clean’. The clean money or assets don’t have an obvious link with any criminal activity. Money laundering also includes money that’s used to fund terrorism, however it’s obtained.

This guide will help you decide whether Money Laundering Regulations apply to your business and understand your responsibilities if they do.

Who the Money Laundering Regulations apply to

The Money Laundering Regulations apply to a number of different business sectors, including financial and credit businesses, accountants and estate agents.

Every business covered by the regulations must be supervised by a supervisory authority. Your business may already be supervised, for example because you belong to a professional body like the Law Society. If not, and your business falls into one of 5 business sectors, you’ll likely need to register with HMRC.

HMRC supervises the following 5 business sectors:

·         Money Service Businesses

·         High Value Dealers

·         Trust or Company Service Providers

·         Accountancy Service Providers

·         Estate Agency Businesses

Anti money laundering controls and monitoring

You must put in place certain controls to prevent your business from being used for money laundering if you’re covered by the Money Laundering Regulations. These include:

·         assessing the risk of your business being used by criminals to launder money

·         checking the identity of your customers

·         checking the identity of ‘beneficial owners’ of corporate bodies and partnerships

·         monitoring your customers’ business activities and reporting anything suspicious to the National Crime Agency (NCA)

·         making sure you have the necessary management control systems in place

·         keeping all documents that relate to financial transactions, the identity of your customers, risk assessment and management procedures and processes

·         making sure that your employees are aware of the regulations and have had the necessary training

Reporting suspicious activity

You need to appoint a nominated officer (sometimes called the money laundering reporting officer) as part of the anti money laundering controls that you have to put in place.

You don’t need to appoint a nominated officer if your business doesn’t have any employees, because you’re the person who is directly responsible for informing theNCA.

Your nominated officer must be told if anyone in your business knows or suspects that another person is laundering money or financing terrorism. The nominated officer then has to review the information they have received and decide if it needs to be reported to the NCA.

Once the nominated officer decides there are reasonable grounds to suspect money laundering they must tell the NCA at the earliest possible opportunity. The nominated officer should get consent from the NCA to complete the transaction. If it’s not possible to delay the transaction to get consent, the nominated officer should inform the NCA of this when theysend their report.

Published: 23 October 2014

From: HM Revenue & Customs