Client identity submission: Aadhaar, PAN or prescribed alternate form must be provided to reporting entities within designated timeframe.
Notification requires clients who open account based relationships to provide either the Aadhaar number, the Permanent Account Number, or a prescribed alternate declaration form to the reporting entity within the period specified by the Central Government, thereby operationalizing the record maintenance obligation under the prevention of money laundering rules.

KYC identifier requirement: Aadhaar and PAN/Form 60 must be submitted by a notified date; noncompliant existing accounts suspended.
Amendment requires clients to submit Aadhaar and either Permanent Account Number or Form No. 60 by a date to be notified by the Central Government, replacing a fixed deadline. Existing account relationships that fail to submit Aadhaar and PAN by the notified date will cease to be operational until the identifiers are provided.

Real estate agents designated as reporting entities under anti-money laundering law, triggering due diligence and reporting obligations.
Notification under the Prevention of Money-laundering Act designates real estate agents, as defined in the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016, as persons carrying on a designated business or profession under the PMLA, thereby subjecting them to the Act's compliance obligations including customer due diligence, record-keeping and reporting duties.

Proof of address for foreign nationals: government documents and embassy letters accepted when official ID lacks address.
Where an officially valid document presented by a foreign national does not include an address, documents issued by government departments of foreign jurisdictions and letters issued by the foreign Embassy or Mission in India shall be accepted as proof of address under the Sixth Amendment to the Prevention of Money-laundering (Maintenance of Records) Rules, 2017.

Proof of address rules allow specified alternative documents where official ID lacks current address, with obligation to update address subsequently.
Amendments to rule 9 define a certified copy as a reporting entity comparing a client's copy with the original and recording that comparison on the copy by an authorised officer as prescribed by the regulator. Where an officially valid document lacks an updated address, specified alternative documents are accepted for limited proof of address: a recent utility bill, property or municipal tax receipt, pension payment orders with address, and employer letters of allotment or leave and licence agreements; the client must submit an updated officially valid document showing the current address within a limited period.

Rescission under Prevention of Money-laundering Act withdraws an earlier Gazette notification while preserving prior acts.
The Central Government, exercising powers under the Prevention of Money-laundering Act, rescinds the earlier August 2017 Gazette notification and withdraws that notification with immediate effect, while preserving acts or omissions done before the rescission.

Designation of intelligence agency: Directorate General of GST Intelligence added for gems and jewellery sector under PMLA records rules.
The Central Government amends the Maintenance of Records Rules, 2005 by inserting in rule 2(1)(fa) a new sub-clause designating the Directorate General of Goods and Service Tax Intelligence as a record-related authority with respect to the gems and jewellery sector; the amendment is made under section 73 of the Prevention of Money-laundering Act and takes effect upon publication in the Official Gazette.

Dealer in precious metals designated under anti money laundering rules when turnover threshold is met for reporting obligations.
Dealers in precious metals, precious stones and other high value goods are designated as persons carrying on a designated business or profession under the anti money laundering framework when they meet the prescribed turnover threshold, with turnover for any year taken as that of the previous financial year.

Deposit balance limit excluded for government grants, welfare benefits and procurement payments, altering record maintenance rules.
The Third Amendment Rules, 2017 insert a proviso to rule 2(1)(fb)(iii) of the Prevention of Money laundering (Maintenance of Records) Rules, 2005 excluding the prescribed balance limit when deposits are made through government grants, welfare benefits, or payments against procurements. The amendment takes effect on publication in the Official Gazette and thus narrowcasts the applicability of the balance-limit criterion for record maintenance in those specific circumstances.

Aadhaar authentication requirement mandates Aadhaar and PAN submission for KYC, with accounts suspended for noncompliance.
Amendments insert Aadhaar-focused definitions and require reporting entities to collect Aadhaar numbers and PAN/Form 60 (or proof of Aadhaar enrolment/officially valid documents) across individuals and entity clients, prescribe authentication via e-KYC or Yes/No facilities, set documentary and monitoring rules for small accounts, require constitutional and authorisation documents for companies, firms, trusts and associations, and mandate that accounts become non-operational if eligible clients fail to submit Aadhaar and PAN within prescribed timelines.

Service of summons and notices may be effected by personal, postal, courier or electronic means, with deemed service in specified cases.
Regulation 13 prescribes form, signature and service requirements: summons and notices must be issued in prescribed forms and served by the complainant or applicant with relied-upon documents and an affidavit of service. Permitted modes of service include personal delivery, postal and courier services, electronic mail or fax; refusal to accept a tendered summons or failure to acknowledge may constitute deemed service. The provision authorises affixation where personal service is impracticable, service on corporate officers or agents, service in prisons, overseas service through postal, courier or designated foreign officers, dispenses service where counsel files authority, and validates electronic transmission under the Information Technology Act.

PMLA jurisdiction allocated to specified Telangana courts for cases arising from CBI investigations and charge sheets.
Amendment substitutes the Table entry for Telangana to allocate PMLA jurisdiction for cases arising from CBI investigations or charge sheets to specified courts: Court of Metropolitan Sessions Judge, Hyderabad (covering Hyderabad, Adilabad, Nizamabad, Karimnagar, Medak, Warangal, Khammam); Court of Metropolitan Sessions Judge, Cyberabad (covering Cyberabad, Ranga Reddy, Mahabubnagar, Nalgonda); and the Court of Principal Special Judge for trial of CBI cases, Hyderabad.

Inspection powers over Central Registry permit regulatory inspections, mandate production of records and require the registry to bear inspection costs.
The amendment redefines "Regulator" to include entities empowered to license, authorise, register, regulate or supervise reporting entities and the authority responsible for the Central KYC Records Registry. It inserts a provision enabling the designated monetary authority to call for information and to cause inspections of the Central Registry; inspection reports must be supplied to the Central Registry, its personnel must produce records and furnish information to inspecting officers, and the Central Registry must bear inspection expenses.

Designation of Special Courts under PMLA revised, altering specified trial areas for offences under the Act.
The notification substitutes specified table entries to revise designation of Special Courts under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, identifying for each amended serial the court to be treated as a Special Court and the territorial area within which it will try offences under the Act, thereby amending the principal notification.

Designation of Intelligence Agency: Defence Intelligence Agency added to PMLA notification as a specified authority.
The Central Government has amended the Prevention of Money laundering Act notification (under clause (ii) of section 66) to insert a new serial entry: "(21) Defence Intelligence Agency," thereby designating the Defence Intelligence Agency as a specified entity under the principal notification published in the Gazette.