{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/money-laundering-and-terrorist-financing-amendment-high-risk-countries-regulations-2021/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/money-laundering-and-terrorist-financing-amendment-high-risk-countries-regulations-2021/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2021/392",
  "legislation_title": "The Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (Amendment) (High-Risk Countries) Regulations 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/money-laundering-and-terrorist-financing-amendment-high-risk-countries-regulations-2021",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017",
  "text": "(1) The Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017 are amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 33 (obligation to apply enhanced customer due diligence), for paragraph (3)(a) substitute—\n“(a) a “high-risk third country” means a country which is specified in Schedule 3ZA;”.\n(3) In regulation 39(4) (reliance), for “a country which has been identified by the European Commission as a high-risk third country in delegated acts adopted under Article 9.2 of the fourth money laundering directive” substitute “a high-risk third country”.\n(4) After Schedule 3 (relevant offences) insert—\n“SCHEDULE 3ZA\nHigh-Risk Third Countries\nRegulation 33(3)\n1. Albania\n2. Barbados\n3. Botswana\n4. Burkina Faso\n5. Cambodia\n6. Cayman Islands\n7. Democratic People’s Republic of Korea\n8. Ghana\n9. Iran\n10. Jamaica\n11. Mauritius\n12. Morocco\n13. Myanmar\n14. Nicaragua\n15. Pakistan\n16. Panama\n17. Senegal\n18. Syria\n19. Uganda\n20. Yemen\n21. Zimbabwe”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2017/692, amended by S.I. 2019/1511, 2019/253 and 2020/99. There are other amending instruments but none is relevant."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/392/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:15:33.336532+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}