Practitioners can enrol from 31 March 2026 and should be enrolled by 1 July 2026 . Technically if a practitioner provides a designated service on 1 July 2026, they will have 28 days to enrol ie: no later than 29 July 2026.
When enrolling, practitioners must provide:
- Information about their designated services (Rule 3-2)
- Information about themselves as the applicant (Rule 3-3)
- Information about the individual completing the enrolment (Rule 3-5)
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
Practice tip:
Start to collate this information and put a bring up in your practice management calendar to ensure this enrolment task is completed after 31 March 2026 and by 1 July 2026.
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).