{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/money-laundering-regulations-1993/crossheading-identification-procedures/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/money-laundering-regulations-1993/crossheading-identification-procedures/regulation-9.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/1933",
  "legislation_title": "The Money Laundering Regulations 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/money-laundering-regulations-1993",
  "path": "crossheading/identification-procedures/regulation/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Identification procedures; transactions on behalf of another",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies where, in relation to a person who is bound by regulation 5(1) above, an applicant for business is or appears to be acting otherwise than as principal.\n(2) Subject to regulation 10 below, identification procedures maintained by a person are in accordance with this regulation if, in a case to which this regulation applies, they require reasonable measures to be taken for the purpose of establishing the identity of any person on whose behalf the applicant for business is acting.\n(3) In determining, for the purposes of paragraph (2) above, what constitutes reasonable measures in any particular case regard shall be had to all the circumstances of the case and, in particular, to best practice which, for the time being, is followed in the relevant field of business and which is applicable to those circumstances.\n(4) Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (3) above, if the conditions mentioned in paragraph (5) below are fulfilled in relation to an applicant for business who is, or appears to be, acting as an agent for a principal (whether undisclosed or disclosed for reference purposes only) it shall be reasonable for a person bound by regulation 5(1) above to accept a written assurance from the applicant for business to the effect that evidence of the identity of any principal on whose behalf the applicant for business may act in relation to that person will have been obtained and recorded under procedures maintained by the applicant for business.\n(5) The conditions referred to in paragraph (4) above are that, in relation to the business relationship or transaction in question, there are reasonable grounds for believing that the applicant for business—\n(a) acts in the course of a business in relation to which an overseas regulatory authority exercises regulatory functions; and\n(b) is based or incorporated in, or formed under the law of, a country other than a member State in which there are in force provisions at least equivalent to those required by the Money Laundering Directive.\n(6) In paragraph (5) above, “overseas regulatory authority” and “regulatory functions” have the same meaning as in section 82 of the Companies Act 1989.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1989 c. 40; section 82 was amended by section 79 of, and paragraph 16 of Schedule 5 to, the Criminal Justice Act 1993 (c. 36); there are no other relevant amendments."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/1933/crossheading/identification-procedures/regulation/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:52:44.305789+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."
}