Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

1991 No. 166 CASH TRANSACTION REPORTS REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) - REG 10

  10.1   After regulation 10, insert:
Verification: certain recipients of social security benefits

"10A. (1) The verification procedure for the purposes of subsection 20 (8) of
the Act for an individual who:

   (a)  is unable to comply with the checks mentioned in regulation 4; and

   (b)  produces to the identifying cash dealer, not more than 3 months after
        the date on which it was issued, a letter of introduction from the
        Department of Social Security; consists of the verification by that
        identifying cash dealer of the identity of the individual from that
        letter of introduction.

"(2) Verification of the identity of a signatory under subregulation (1) is
worth 100 points.

"(3) In subregulation (1), 'letter of introduction' means a letter signed by
the signatory and an officer of the Department of Social Security to the
effect that:

   (a)  the signatory is the recipient of a Social Security payment; and

   (b)  the signatory's signature has been verified from departmental
        records.".