Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Regulations

28 (1) Subject to subsection 52(1), every money services business shall report the following transactions and information to the Centre:

• (a) the receipt from a client of an amount in cash of $10,000 or more in the course of a single transaction, together with the information referred to in Schedule 1, unless the cash is received from a financial entity or a public body;

• (b) the sending out of Canada, at the request of a client, of an electronic funds transfer of $10,000 or more in the course of a single transaction, together with the information referred to in Schedule 2 or 5, as the case may be; and

• (c) the receipt from outside Canada of an electronic funds transfer, sent at the request of a client, of $10,000 or more in the course of a single transaction, together with the information referred to in Schedule 3 or 6, as the case may be.

(2) For greater certainty, paragraph (1)(b) does not apply when the money services business sends an electronic funds transfer to a person or an entity in Canada, even if the final recipient is outside Canada.

(3) Paragraph (1)(b) applies in respect of a money services business that orders a person or entity, to which subsection (1), 12(1) or 40(1) applies, to send out of Canada an electronic funds transfer made at the request of a client, unless it provides that person or entity with the name and address of that client.

(4) Subject to subsection (5), for greater certainty, paragraph (1)(c) does not apply when the money services business receives an electronic funds transfer from a person or entity in Canada, even if the initial sender is outside Canada.

(5) Paragraph (1)(c) applies in respect of a money services business that receives an electronic funds transfer for a beneficiary in Canada from a person or entity to which subsection (1), 12(1) or 40(1) applies where the initial sender is outside Canada, unless the electronic funds transfer contains the name and address of that beneficiary.