Singapore legislation

Regulation 9

of Estate Agents (Prevention of Money Laundering, Proliferation Financing and Terrorism Financing) Regulations 2021

Regulation 9

Ongoing monitoring

Amended byS 461/2025 wef 01/07/2025

Subregulation 1

Where a licensed estate agent has an ongoing business relationship with a client, a responsible person must perform ongoing monitoring in accordance with this regulation.

Subregulation 2

The responsible person must periodically review the information and documents obtained as a result of the customer due diligence measures under these Regulations to —

(a)

ascertain whether the transactions carried out by the client are consistent with the responsible person’s knowledge of the client; and

(b)

identify suspicious transactions, including transactions or patterns of transactions that are inconsistent with the client’s profile.

Subregulation 3

Amended byS 461/2025 wef 01/07/2025

The responsible person must periodically review the adequacy of information and documents obtained as a result of the customer due diligence measures under these Regulations, particularly in cases where there is a higher risk of money laundering, proliferation financing or terrorism financing, to ensure that the information in respect of —

(a)

each client;

(b)

a beneficial owner of each client;

(c)

a person on whose behalf each client is acting; and

(d)

a beneficial owner of each such person,is kept current.