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Prevention of Money-laundering (Maintenance of Records) Amendment Rules, 2015.

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..... s may be called the Prevention of Money-laundering (Maintenance of Records) Amendment Rules, 2015. (2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette. 2. In the Prevention of Money-laundering (Maintenance of Records) Rules, 2005 , - (a) in rule 2, in sub-rule (1),- (I) after clause(a), the following clause shall be inserted, namely :- '(aa) Central KYC Records Registry means a reporting entity, substantially owned and controlled by the Central Government, and authorised by that Government through a notification in the Official Gazette to receive, store, safeguard and retrieve the KYC records in digital form of a client as referred to in clause (ha) in such manner and to perform su .....

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..... rovisions of sub-rule (1), every reporting entity shall within three days after the commencement of an account-based relationship with a client, file the electronic copy of the client's KYC records with the Central KYC Records Registry; (1B) The Central KYC Records Registry shall process the KYC records received from a reporting entity for de-duplicating and issue a KYC Identifier for each client to the reporting entity, which shall communicate the KYC Identifier in writing to their client; (1C) Where a client, for the purposes of clause (a) and clause (b), submits a KYC Identifier to a reporting entity, then such reporting entity shall retrieve the KYC records online from the Central KYC Records Registry by using the KYC Identifi .....

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..... authorised to do so by the client or by the Regulator or by the Director; (1G) The regulator shall issue guidelines to ensure that the Central KYC records are accessible to the reporting entities in real time. . (II) in sub-rule (2), for clause (a), the following clause shall be substituted, namely: - '(a) the reporting entity, within two days, obtains from the third party or from the Central KYC Records Registry records or the information of the client due diligence carried out by the third party. (c) after rule 9, the following rule shall be inserted, namely:- 9A. Functions and obligations of the Central KYC Records Registry.- (1) The Central Government shall within a period of thirty days from the date of coming int .....

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..... er and also the guidelines and instructions issued by the Central Government and the Regulator and for redressal of client's grievances; the compliance officer shall immediately and independently report to the Central Government any non- compliance observed by him; (g) the Regulator in consultation with the Central Government and the Central KYC Records Registry may issue guidelines to be followed by the reporting entities for filing the KYC records with the Central KYC Records Registry or any other matter in connection with or incidental thereto; (h) the Central Government, in consultation with Regulator, may by notification in the public interest and in the interest of the regulated entities, direct that any of the provisions of .....

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