Section 9: Real estate agents, including FIU
This section is inserted by Act No 3 of 2026, section 10.
consolidated text (as at 2016, amended since). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
9. Real estate agents, including FIU
land promoters, property
developers and a person
employed by the State, a
statutory body or such other
body as may be prescribed
under the Real Estate Authority
Act 2020 who, in the discharge
of his functions, carries out a
real estate transaction (in so far
as it relates to AML/CFT under
this Act or under any other
relevant enactment)
(ii) in Part II, in paragraph 1 –
(A) by repealing paragraph (a) and replacing by the
following paragraph –
(a) a person licensed, under the
Gambling Regulatory Authority
Act, to operate a casino and a
gaming house A, where any of his
customers engages in, on any given
date, a total cumulative financial
transaction equal to or above
50,000 rupees or an equivalent
amount in foreign currency;
(B) by repealing paragraph (b);
(p) by adding the Fifth Schedule set out in the First Schedule to
this Act.
88 Acts 2026
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Questions this section answers
- Are real estate agents and property developers treated as 'reporting persons' under the anti-money laundering law?