Suspicious transaction reporting: amendments require prompt electronic reporting for counterfeit or terrorism linked suspicions and streamlined record copies.
Amendment revises suspicious transaction definitions to include transactions lacking economic rationale or suggesting terrorism financing and those involving forged or counterfeit currency or securities. It requires the Principal Officer to furnish monthly reports for routine categories and to provide prompt written, fax or electronic reports within a short working day window for forgery/counterfeit and suspicious transactions, and reduces multiple certified copy requirements to a single certified copy.

Special Courts designation under PMLA enables Sessions Courts to try offences under Section four with specified territorial jurisdiction.
The Central Government, under section 43(1) of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, designates specified Courts of Sessions as Special Courts to try offences punishable under section 4, listing Sessions Judges in Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh and assigning revenue districts as the territorial areas for trial; the notification was subsequently superseded by a later notification.

Prevention of Money-Laundering designation of judicial officers for Maharashtra under amended notification to administer PMLA jurisdictional matters.
The Central Government, in consultation with the Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court, substitutes the Annexure entry for Maharashtra in notification S.O. 841(E) to designate the Principal Judge, City Civil and Sessions Court and all Principal District and Sessions Judges as the specified judicial authorities for Greater Bombay and their respective judicial districts.