Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Regulations (SOR/2002-184)

Life Insurance Companies and Life Insurance Brokers or Agents

• 17 (1) A life insurance broker or agent is engaged in a business or profession for the purposes of paragraph 5(i) of the Act.

• (2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a life insurance broker or agent when they are acting as a managing general agent.

18 A life insurance company or life insurance broker or agent that receives an amount of $10,000 or more in cash from a person or entity in a single transaction shall report the transaction to the Centre, together with the information set out in Schedule 1, unless

• (a) the amount is received from a financial entity or public body or from a person who is acting on behalf of a client that is a financial entity or public body; or

• (b) the transaction

  • (i) involves the sale of an immediate or deferred annuity that is paid for entirely with funds that are directly transferred from a registered pension plan or from a pension plan that is required to be registered under the Pension Benefits Standards Act, 1985, or similar provincial legislation,

  • (ii) involves the sale of a registered annuity policy or a registered retirement income fund,

  • (iii) involves the sale of an immediate or deferred annuity that is paid for entirely with the proceeds of a group life insurance policy, or

  • (iv) is part of a reverse mortgage or structured settlement.

19 A life insurance company or life insurance broker or agent that receives an amount of $10,000 or more in virtual currency from a person or entity in a single transaction shall report the transaction to the Centre, together with the information set out in Schedule 4.

20 A life insurance company or life insurance broker or agent shall keep a large cash transaction record in respect of every amount of $10,000 or more in cash that they receive from a person or entity in a single transaction, unless

• (a) the amount is received from a financial entity or public body or from a person who is acting on behalf of a client that is a financial entity or public body; or

• (b) the transaction

  • (i) involves the sale of an immediate or deferred annuity that is paid for entirely with funds that are directly transferred from a registered pension plan or from a pension plan that is required to be registered under the Pension Benefits Standards Act, 1985, or similar provincial legislation,

  • (ii) involves the sale of a registered annuity policy or a registered retirement income fund,

  • (iii) involves the sale of an immediate or deferred annuity that is paid for entirely with the proceeds of a group life insurance policy, or

  • (iv) is part of a reverse mortgage or structured settlement.

20.1 [Repealed, SOR/2019-240, s. 28]

20.2 [Repealed, SOR/2019-240, s. 28]

21 A life insurance company or life insurance broker or agent shall keep a large virtual currency transaction record in respect of every amount of $10,000 or more in virtual currency that they receive from a person or entity in a single transaction, unless the amount is received from a financial entity or public body or from a person who is acting on behalf of a client that is a financial entity or public body.

• 22 (1) A life insurance company or life insurance broker or agent shall, regardless of the means of payment, keep an information record in connection with the sale of an immediate or deferred annuity or a life insurance policy

  • (a) for which they are to receive an amount of $10,000 or more over the duration of the annuity or policy; or

  • (b) under which they are to remit an amount of $10,000 or more to a beneficiary over the duration of the annuity or policy.

• (2) The information record

  • (a) in connection with the sale referred to in paragraph (1)(a) shall be created when the life insurance company or life insurance broker or agent establishes the annuity or policy and shall be kept, subject to subsection (3), in respect of the annuitant or policy holder; and

  • (b) in connection with the sale referred to in paragraph (1)(b) shall be created before the life insurance company or life insurance broker or agent first remits funds or virtual currency to the beneficiary under the annuity or policy and shall be kept in respect of the beneficiary.

• (3) In the case of a life insurance policy that is a group life insurance policy or in the case of a group annuity, the information record shall be kept in respect of the applicant for the policy or annuity.

• (4) Paragraph (2)(b) does not apply if the life insurance company or life insurance broker or agent, due to facts or circumstances beyond its control, is unable to create the information record within the time period in which they are required, under federal or provincial legislation, to first remit funds or virtual currency to the beneficiary.

23 A life insurance company or life insurance broker or agent that keeps an information record under section 22 in respect of a corporation shall also keep a copy of the part of the official corporate records that contains any provision relating to the power to bind the corporation in respect of transactions with the life insurance company or life insurance broker or agent.

24 Sections 18 to 23 do not apply to a life insurance company or life insurance broker or agent when they are dealing in reinsurance.

Securities Dealers

25 A securities dealer that receives an amount of $10,000 or more in cash from a person or entity in a single transaction shall report the transaction to the Centre, together with the information set out in Schedule 1, unless the amount is received from a financial entity or public body or from a person who is acting on behalf of a client that is a financial entity or public body.

26 A securities dealer that receives an amount of $10,000 or more in virtual currency from a person or entity in a single transaction shall report the transaction to the Centre, together with the information set out in Schedule 4.

27 A securities dealer shall keep a large cash transaction record in respect of every amount of $10,000 or more in cash that they receive from a person or entity in a single transaction, unless the amount is received from a financial entity or public body or from a person who is acting on behalf of a client that is a financial entity or public body.

28 A securities dealer shall keep a large virtual currency transaction record in respect of every amount of $10,000 or more in virtual currency that they receive from a person or entity in a single transaction, unless the amount is received from a financial entity or public body or from a person who is acting on behalf of a client that is a financial entity or public body.

29 A securities dealer shall keep the following records in respect of every account that they open:

• (a) every signature card;

• (b) a record for each account holder and every other person — up to three, in the case of a business account — who is authorized to give instructions in respect of the account, containing their name and address, the nature of their principal business or their occupation and, in the case of a person, their date of birth;

• (c) if an account holder is a corporation, a copy of the part of its official corporate records that contains any provision relating to the power to bind the corporation in respect of the account;

• (d) a record that sets out the intended use of the account;

• (e) a record of every application in respect of the account;

• (f) every account operating agreement that they create or receive in respect of the account;

• (g) every confirmation of purchase or sale, guarantee, trade authorization, power of attorney and joint account agreement and all correspondence that pertains to the operation of the account; and

• (h) a copy of every account statement that they send to an account holder.

Money Services Businesses and Foreign Money Services Businesses

29.1 For the purposes of subparagraphs 5(h)(v) and (h.1)(v) of the Act, crowdfunding platform services are a prescribed service.

• 30 (1) A money services business shall report the following transactions and information to the Centre:

  • (a) the receipt from a person or entity of an amount of $10,000 or more in cash in a single transaction, together with the information set out in Schedule 1;

  • (b) the initiation, at the request of a person or entity, of an international electronic funds transfer of $10,000 or more in a single transaction, together with the information set out in Schedule 2;

  • (c) the final receipt of an international electronic funds transfer of $10,000 or more in a single transaction, together with the information set out in Schedule 3;

  • (d) the initiation, at the request of a person or entity, of an international electronic funds transfer of $10,000 or more in a single transaction, together with the information set out in Schedule 2, if the money services business also finally receives or is to finally receive the electronic funds transfer;

  • (e) the final receipt of an international electronic funds transfer of $10,000 or more in a single transaction, together with the information set out in Schedule 3, if the money services business also initiated the electronic funds transfer; and

  • (f) the receipt from a person or entity of an amount of $10,000 or more in virtual currency in a single transaction, together with the information set out in Schedule 4.

• (2) A money services business is not required to report the transaction and information under paragraph (1)(a) if the amount is received from a financial entity or public body or from a person who is acting on behalf of a client that is a financial entity or public body.

31 A money services business shall keep a large cash transaction record in respect of every amount of $10,000 or more in cash that they receive from a person or entity in a single transaction, unless the amount is received from a financial entity or public body or from a person who is acting on behalf of a client that is a financial entity or public body.

32 A money services business shall keep a large virtual currency transaction record in respect of every amount of $10,000 or more in virtual currency that they receive from a person or entity in a single transaction, unless the amount is received from a financial entity or public body or from a person who is acting on behalf of a client that is a financial entity or public body.

32.1 A money services business is not required to report the transaction or information referred to in paragraph 30(1)(a) or (f) or to keep the record referred to in section 31 or 32 if the cash or virtual currency is received only for the purpose of transport

• (a) to or from a person or entity referred to in section 5 of the Act, if the transport is carried out at the request of such a person or entity and the cash or virtual currency is of an amount that is not declared to the money services business and that they cannot readily determine;

• (b) between the Bank of Canada and a person or entity in Canada; or

• (c) between two places of business of the same person or entity, if that person or entity is referred to in section 5 of the Act and the transport is carried out at their request.

• 33 (1) A foreign money services business shall report the following transactions and information to the Centre:

  • (a) the receipt from a person or entity in Canada of an amount of $10,000 or more in cash in a single transaction, together with the information set out in Schedule 1;

  • (b) the initiation, at the request of a person or entity in Canada, of an electronic funds transfer of $10,000 or more in a single transaction, together with the information set out in Schedule 2, if the electronic funds transfer is sent or is to be sent from one country to another;

  • (c) the final receipt of an electronic funds transfer of $10,000 or more in a single transaction, together with the information set out in Schedule 3, if the electronic funds transfer was sent from one country to another and the beneficiary is in Canada;

  • (d) the initiation, at the request of a person or entity in Canada, of an international electronic funds transfer of $10,000 or more in a single transaction, together with the information set out in Schedule 2, if the foreign money services business also finally receives or is to finally receive the electronic funds transfer;

  • (e) the final receipt of an international electronic funds transfer of $10,000 or more in a single transaction, together with the information set out in Schedule 3, if the foreign money services business also initiated the electronic funds transfer and the beneficiary is in Canada; and

  • (f) the receipt from a person or entity in Canada of an amount of $10,000 or more in virtual currency in a single transaction, together with the information set out in Schedule 4.

• (2) A foreign money services business is not required to report the transaction and information under paragraph (1)(a) if the amount is received from a financial entity or public body or from a person who is acting on behalf of a client that is a financial entity or public body.