Advisers, please select your client's relevant identification form:
- Individuals and Sole Traders identification form
- Australian and Foreign Companies identification form
- Partners and Partnerships identification form
- Trusts and Trustees identification form
- Registered Co-operative identification form
- Associations identification form
- Government body identification form
Why is this identification form important?
The Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act 2006 has been introduced by the Australian Government to reduce the risk of Australian businesses being misused for the purposes of money laundering or financing terrorism.
The AML/CTF Act requires businesses providing certain financial services to:
- identify their customers before providing certain services
- report certain transactions above a monetary threshold and
- report suspicious transactions
As a result, Suncorp must change the way in which we identify and verify new customers. You will be required to include your client’s completed relevant industry-standard identification form with any completed application form from the relevant Suncorp Product Disclosure Statement.
If you have any queries about this AML/CTF Act new identification and verification process please do not hesitate to contact us.
What is a certified copy or certified extract?
- A "Certified copy" means a document that has been certified as a true copy of an original document.
- "Certified extract" means an extract that has been certified as a true copy of some of the information contained in a complete original document by one of the people described in below.
Who can certify documents or extracts?
- A lawyer who is enrolled on the roll of the Supreme Court of a State or Territory, or High Court of Australia, as a legal practitioner (however described);
- a judge of a court;
- a magistrate;
- a chief executive officer of a Commonwealth court;
- a registrar or deputy registrar of a court;
- a Justice of Peace;
- a notary public (for the purposes of the Statutory Declaration Regulations 1993);
- a police officer;
- an agent of the Australian Postal Corporation who is in charge of an office supplying postal services to the public;
- A permanent employee of The Australian Postal Corporation with 2 or more years of continuous service who is employed in an office supplying postal services to the public;
- an Australian consular officer or an Australian diplomatic officer (within the meaning of the Consular Fees Act 1955);
- an officer with 2 or more continuous years of service with one or more financial institutions (for the purposes of the Statutory Declaration Regulations 1993);
- a finance company officer with 2 or more continuous years of service with one or more financial companies (for the purposes of the Statutory Declaration Regulations 1993);
- an officer with, or authorised representative of, a holder of an Australian financial services licence, having 2 or more continuous years of service with one or more licensees; and
- An accountant - a member of the institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, CPA Australia or the National Institute of Accountants with 2 or more years of continuous membership.