PML (Maintenance of Records) Amendment Rules, 2020

Prevention of Money-laundering (Maintenance of Records) Amendment Rules, 2020- small account shall remain operational between 1st April, 2020 and 30th June 2020 and such other periods as may be notified by the Central Government.

MINISTRY OF FINANCE
(Department of Revenue)
NOTIFICATION

New Delhi, the 31st March, 2020

G.S.R. 228(E).—In exercise of the powers conferred by section 73 read with section 11A and section 12AA of the Prevention of Money-laundering Act, 2002 (15 of 2003), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Prevention of Money-laundering (Maintenance of Records) Rules, 2005, namely:—

1. (1) These rules may be called the Prevention of Money-laundering (Maintenance of Records) Amendment Rules, 2020.

(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, in clause (iii) to the proviso to sub-rule (5) of rule 9, the following clause shall be inserted, namely:-

“(iiia) Notwithstanding anything contained in clause (iii), the small account shall remain operational between 1st April, 2020 and 30th June 2020 and such other periods as may be notified by the Central Government.”.

[F.No. P-12011/18/2019-ES Cell-DOR]

RITVIK PANDEY, Jt. Secy.

Note: The principal rules were published in Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i) vide number G.S.R. 444(E), dated the 1st July, 2005 and were last amended vide number G.S.R. 840(E), dated the 13th November, 2019.