Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) Guideline: Suspicious Activity Reports (SAR)

Date Published: 
November 2021

The FIU have issued a Suspicious Activity Reporting Guideline to help clarify the obligation to report SARs under the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act 2009 (AML/CFT Act).

This document is referenced in the Suspicious Activities and Transactions Reports page under the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU).

Statement of case to renew designated terrorist entity April 2018

Date Published: 
May 2018

The risk of a terrorist attack in New Zealand is low, but Government are determined that New Zealand and New Zealanders be neither the target nor source of terrorist activities.

The designation of terrorist entities is one measure New Zealand takes to contribute to the international campaign against terrorism. The Terrorism Suppression Act 2002 (TSA) provides for a list of terrrorist entities to be established and maintained in New Zealand. Police are responsible for coordinating requests to the Prime Minister for designation as a terrorist entity.

The following document details designation that was renewed as a terrorist entity on 29 April 2018.

Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) Quarterly Typology Report

Date Published: 
May 2018

The following documents have been produced by the New Zealand Financial Intelligence Unit and is made available in the Reports page.

History of firearms regulation in New Zealand

Date Published: 
November 2017

This details more than 170 years history of regulation of firearms and firearms owners in New Zealand.

Prescribed Transactions Reporting (PTR) documents

Date Published: 
November 2021

PTR documents and resources are available from the Resource Library in goAML. The Resource Library is available for reporting entities who have registered with goAML.

Visit the Prescribed Transactions Reporting page to learn more.

Statements of cases to designate terrorist entities March 2018

Date Published: 
April 2018

The risk of a terrorist attack in New Zealand is low, but Government are determined that New Zealand and New Zealanders be neither the target nor source of terrorist activities.

The designation of terrorist entities is one measure New Zealand takes to contribute to the international campaign against terrorism. The Terrorism Suppression Act 2002 (TSA) provides for a list of terrrorist entities to be established and maintained in New Zealand. Police are responsible for coordinating requests to the Prime Minister for designation as a terrorist entity.

These papers each set out the case demonstrating that each of the groups listed below meet the statutory criteria for designation as a terrorist entity within New Zealand under the TSA and were designated on 21 March 2018.