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Enrol with AUSTRAC

If your practice provides designated services, you will need to enrol with AUSTRAC.

If a practitioner provides a designated service on 1 July 2026, they will have 28 days to enrol i.e.: no later than 29 July 2026. If you do not provide a designated service on 1 July 2026 but start providing one later, you must enrol within 28 days of that commencement date.

When enrolling, practitioners must provide:

  1. Information about their designated services (Rule 3-2)
  2. Information about themselves as the applicant (Rule 3-3)
  3. Information about the individual completing the enrolment (Rule 3-5)

AUSTRAC will be providing a specific form for you to complete. For further information on enrolment, view AUSTRAC's enrolment guidance.

Information about designated services

You must provide:

  • A description of the designated services you provide or intend to provide
  • The date you commenced, or intend to commence, providing these services
  • Whether you provide (or will provide) the services at or through:
    • a permanent establishment in Australia
    • a permanent establishment in a foreign country
    • a permanent establishment overseas as a subsidiary of an Australian resident company
  • The industry in which you provide or propose to provide the designated services

 Information about the applicant

You must also provide:

  • Full name and any registered or trading names
  • ABN, ACN, ARBN and/or ARSN (as applicable)
  • Registered office address
  • Principal place of business or operations in Australia
  • Legal form (e.g. partnership, ILP, trust)
  • Number of employees
  • Telephone number and email address
  • Domain names for all websites through which services are provided (if any)
  • Description of the practice or business
  • Names of any beneficial owners
  • Approximate annual turnover for the most recent financial year (see Rule 3-4)
  • Legal Entity Identifier (LEI), if applicable, and details of the issuing organisation
  • Name, position and email address of a contact person for communications under the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre Industry Contribution Act 2011
  • Whether you were a small business entity (as defined in section 328-110 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997) for the previous income year
  • Details of any professional or industry associations of which you are a member

Note: Rule 3-3 includes additional requirements for applicants who are body corporates, government bodies, partnerships, trusts, associations/co-operatives or reporting groups. Practitioners should refer to the relevant subsections of that Rule.

Information about the individual completing the enrolment

You must provide:

  • Full name
  • Job title or position
  • Role or relationship with the applicant
  • Telephone number and email address
  • A declaration that the information provided is true and correct

Updating your details

If any details in your enrolment change – whether relating to your designated services or your applicant information – you must notify AUSTRAC within 14 days of the change (Rule 3-9).