Singapore legislation
Regulation 16
Regulation 16
Tipping-off
Amended byS 473/2025 wef 01/07/2025
Where a legal practitioner or law practice —
(a)
suspects that a client may be engaged in money laundering, the financing of terrorism or proliferation financing; and
(b)
has reason to believe that the performance of any customer due diligence measures prescribed in this Part will tip-off the client, any person acting on behalf of the client or any person on whose behalf the client is acting,the legal practitioner or law practice —
(c)
need not perform those customer due diligence measures; but(d)must instead file a suspicious transaction report with either or both of the following, as the case may be:
(i)
a Suspicious Transaction Reporting Officer;
(ii)
a police officer or Commercial Affairs Officer.