Regulatory Alerts2026-02-06
Financial Transactions Reporting (Amendment) Regulations 2022
Attorney-General A. Sayed-Khaiyum issued the Financial Transactions Reporting (Amendment) Regulations 2022 to amend the Principal Regulations under the Financial Transactions Reporting Act 2004. The regulations establish distinct reporting requirements by mandating Form 1A for threshold transactions and Form 2 for cash transactions of $5,000 or above depending on the financial institution's business activity. These changes, effective 1 November 2022, also update related provisions in regulations 2 and 28 and revise the forms listed in Schedule 1.
341 TO: THE RESPONDENT [state address] The respondent’s address of service is [state address for service]. [LEGAL NOTICE NO. 126] FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS REPORTING ACT 2004 ________ Financial Transactions Reporting (Amendment) Regulations 2022 IN exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 42 of the Financial Transactions Reporting Act 2004, I hereby make these Regulations— Short title and commencement 1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Financial Transactions Reporting (Amendment) Regulations 2022. (2) These Regulations come into force on 1 November 2022. (3) In these Regulations, the Financial Transactions Reporting Regulations 2007 is referred to as the “Principal Regulations”. Regulation 2 amended 2. Regulation 2(2) of the Principal Regulations is amended by— (a) deleting “13(1) and (2)” and substituting “13(2)”; and (b) deleting paragraph (a). Regulation 25 amended 3. The Principal Regulations are amended by deleting regulation 25 and substituting the following— “Reporting of transactions 25.—(1) For the purpose ofsection 13(1) of theAct, a financial institution carrying on the business or activity set out in paragraph (a) of the Schedule to the Act must report to the Unit any transaction of an amount of $5,000 and above, using Form 1A as set out in Schedule 1. (2) For the purpose of section 13(1A) of the Act, a financial institution carrying on any business or activity set out in paragraphs (b) to (z) of the Schedule to the Act must report to the Unit any transaction of an amount in cash of $5,000 and above, using Form 2 as set out in Schedule 1.”.
342 Regulation 28 amended 4. Regulation 28(2) of the Principal Regulations is amended by— (a) after “The”, inserting “threshold transaction report and”; and (b) deleting “Form 2” and substituting “forms 1A and 2, as applicable”. Schedule 1 amended 5. Schedule 1 to the Principal Regulations is amended by— (a) after “Form 1 Suspicious Transaction Report (STR)”, inserting the following— “Form 1A Threshold Transaction Report (TTR)”; (b) after Form 1, inserting the following new form—
343 “FORM 1A _____ THRESHOLD TRANSACTION REPORT (TTR)
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344 (c) deleting Form 2 and substituting the following— “FORM 2 _____ CASH TRANSACTION REPORT (CTR) ”. Made this 6th day of October 2022. A. SAYED-KHAIYUM Attorney-General Price: $1.40 STAR PRINTERY PTE LTD, (Government Printer), Suva, Fiji – 2022 170/FGGS/22—269 Official Printer Since 2022