| Term |
Definition |
Source |
| Authorised Person |
Authorised person means an
authorised person as defined in clause (c) of section 2 of the
Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999 |
2(1)(da) of PMLA |
| Banking Company |
Banking company means a banking company or a co-operative bank to which the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 applies and includes any bank or banking institution referred to in section 51 of that Act. |
2(1)(e) of PMLA |
| Chit Fund Company |
Chit fund company means a company managing, conducting or supervising, as foremen, agent or in any other capacity, chits as defined in Section 2 of the Chit Funds Act, 1982. |
2(1)(h) of PMLA |
| Co-operative Bank |
Co-operative bank shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in clause(dd) of section 2 of the Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation Act 1961. |
2(1)(i) of PMLA |
| Client |
Client means a person that engages in a financial transaction or activity with a banking company, or financial institution or intermediary and includes a person on whose behalf the person that engages in the transaction or activity, is acting. |
2(1)(b) of Rules* |
| Financial institution |
Financial Institution means a Financial Institution as defined in clause (c) of section 45-I of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 (2 of 1934) and includes a chit fund company, a co-operative bank, a housing finance institution and a non banking financial company. |
2(1)(l) of PMLA |
| Housing Finance Institution |
Housing Finance Institution shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in clause (d) of section 2 of the National Housing Bank Act, 1987. |
2(1)(m) of PMLA |
| Intermediary |
Intermediary means a stock-broker, sub-broker, share transfer agent, banker to an issue, trustee to a trust deed, registrar to an issue, merchant banker, underwriter, portfolio manager, investment adviser and any other intermediary associated with securities market and registered under section 12 of the Securities and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992 (15 of'1992). |
2(1)(n) of PMLA |
| Money Laundering |
Whosoever directly or indirectly attempts to indulge or knowingly assists or knowingly is a party or is actually involved in any process or activity connected with the proceeds of crime and projecting it as untainted property shall be guilty of offence of money laundering. |
3 of PMLA |
| Non-banking Financial Company |
Non-banking financial company shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in clause (f) of section 45-I of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934. |
2(1)(q) of PMLA |
| Non profit organisation |
Non profit organisation means any entity or organisation
that is registered as a trust or a society under the Societies
Registration Act, 1860 (21 of 1860) or any similar State
legislation or a company registered under section 25 of the
Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956). |
2(1)(ca) of Rules** |
| Officially Valid Document |
Officially valid document means the passport, the driving licence, the Permanent Account Number (PAN) Card, the Voter's Identity Card issued by the Election Commission of India or any other document as may be required by the banking company, or financial institution or intermediary. |
2(1)(d) of Rules* |
| Person |
Persons includes -
- an individual,
- a Hindu undivided family,
- a company,
- a firm,
- an association of persons or a body of individuals,
- whether incorporated or not,
- every artificial juridical person, not falling within any of the preceding sub-clauses,
- and any agency, office or branch owned or controlled by any of the above persons mentioned in the preceding sub-clauses.
|
2(1)(s) of PMLA |
| Prescribed Value |
Prescribed value means the value of transaction prescribed under these rules. |
2(1)(e) of Rules* |
| Principal Officer |
Principal officer means an officer designated by a banking company, financial institution and intermediary, as the case may be. |
2(1)(f) of Rules* |
| Proceeds Of Crime |
Proceeds of crime means any property derived or obtained, directly or indirectly, by any person as a result of criminal activity relating to a scheduled offence or the value of any such property. |
2(1)(u) of PMLA |
| Property |
Property means any property or assets of every description, whether corporeal or incorporeal, movable or immovable, tangible or intangible and includes deeds and instruments evidencing title to, or interest in, such property or assets, wherever located. |
2(1)(v) of PMLA |
| Records |
Records include the records maintained in the form of books or stored in a computer or such other form as may be prescribed |
2(1)(w) of PMLA |
| Regulator |
Regulator
means a person or an authority or a Government which is vested
with the power to license, authorise, register, regulate or
supervise the activity of banking companies, financial
institutions or intermediaries, as the case may be. |
2(1)(ca) of Rules** |
| Scheduled Offence |
Scheduled offence means -
(iii) the offences specified under Part A of the Schedule, or
(iv)
the offences specified under Part B of the Schedule if the total value involved in such offences is thirty lakh rupees or more
|
2(1)(y) of PMLA |
| Suspicious Transaction |
Suspicions transaction means a transaction
referred to in clause (h), including an attempted transaction, whether or not made in cash which, to a person acting in good faith -
(a) gives rise
to a reasonable ground of suspicion that it may involve
proceeds of an offence specified in the Schedule to the Act,
regardless of the value involved; or
(b) appears to be made in circumstances of unusual or unjustified complexity; or
(c) appears to have no economic
rationale or bonafide purpose; or
(d) gives rise to a reasonable
ground of suspicion that it may involve financing
of the activities relating to terrorism;
|
2(1)(g) of Rules*** |
| Transaction |
Transaction includes deposit, withdrawal, exchange or transfer of funds in whatever currency, whether in cash or by cheque, payment order or other instruments or by electronic or other non-physical means. |
2(1)(h) of Rules* |
| Transfer |
Transfer includes sale, purchase, mortgage, pledge, gift, loan or any other form of transfer of right, title, possession or lien. |
2(1)(za) of PMLA |
| Value |
Value means the fair market value of any property on the date of its acquisition by any person, or if such date cannot be determined, the date on which such property is possessed by such person. |
2(1)(zb) of PMLA |
