Money Laundering Regulations 2007

From 15 December 2007 the Money Laundering Regulations 2007 required certain businesses to register with HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), have systems in place to prevent money laundering and to report suspicious activity.

Q. Were you registered under the Money Laundering Regulations 2003?

A. If you have previously been supervised by HMRC under the previous regulations, then we have provided quick links to get you to the information you need such as our guidance, forms and how to register.

Q. Are you registering for the first time or are checking to see if you need to take action?

A. If you are registering for the first time or you are checking to see if your business has to take action to comply with the Money Laundering Regulations then you may not know where to start. HMRC supervise four types of business so it is important you know the type of business you are.

We have provided some starter guides in the links below:

• Beginner’s guide to Money Laundering Regulations 2007 and what I need to do.
• What business area does my business fall into?
• I am a new business, what do I need to do?
• I know I need to register with HMRC, but how do I do that?
• What are anti money laundering controls and how do I put anti money laundering controls in place?

Find out how to

• contact us
• report suspicious activity

Show me

• MLR 9: Registration Notice (Money Laundering Regulations 2007) (PDF 1MB)
• flowcharts to help me decide if I need to register
• MLR 8 Preventing money laundering and terrorist financing (Money Laundering Regulations 2007) (PDF 7.9MB)
• MLR8 A quick guide to the prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing
• the Anti-Money Laundering Guidance published by the Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies (CCAB) which all Accountancy Service Providers (ASPs) should follow
• the forms I need to register