ECSH45812 - Fit and proper and approvals: contents: operational guidance: fit and proper what is tested: competence and capability

When determining whether a business and all of its beneficial owners, officers, or managers (BOOMs) are fit and proper you will need to consider whether they have adequate experience in accordance with Ìýof The Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017 (MLR 2017), the decision maker (DM) should consider factors relating to competence and capability.

If the DM is satisfied that a business or its BOOMs do not have adequate skills and experience, this may also lead to the determination that the business is at risk of being used for money laundering or terrorist financing which would constitute a failure under regulation 58(4)(b) of MLR 2017 as well.

Below is a non-exhaustive list of factors that may indicate that a business or its BOOMs do not have adequate skills and experience. The DM should also consider any additional factors that demonstrate a lack competence and capability.

(1)Ìý ÌýWhether the person satisfies the relevant training and competence requirements in relation to the role the person performs or is intended to perform.

(2)Ìý ÌýWhether the person has demonstrated by experience and training that the person is suitable, or will be suitable if approved, to perform the role.

(3)Ìý ÌýWhether the person has adequate time and other resources of any kind available to them in order to perform the role and meet the responsibilities associated with that role.

(4)Ìý Whether the person has demonstrated compliance or a consistent fialure with their obligations under any of the following:

    • MLR 2017.
    • Money Laundering Regulations 2001.
    • Money Laundering Regulations 2003, or,
    • Money Laundering Regulations 2007.

If you have enough evidence to show that there has been a consistent fialure in (4) above, this would constiture a failure under regulation 58(4)(a) MLR 2017.

A person may have been convicted of or dismissed or suspended from employment for drug or alcohol abuse or other abusive acts. This will be considered only in relation to a person바카라 사이트™s continuing ability to perform the particular role for which the person is or is to be employed.

The relevant training requirements are set out in regulation 24 MLR 2017.Ìý Further information on training can be found at ECSH33220.ÌýÌý