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AML/CFT Guidelines for DNFBPs
AML/CFT guidance for Designated Non-Financial Businesses and Professions (DNFBPs) on their compliance obligations.
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AML/CFT guidance for Designated Non-Financial Businesses and Professions (DNFBPs) on their compliance obligations.
2021 amendment updating the AML Regulations to align obligations with current international standards.
Amends the 2011 AML Regulations, refining customer due-diligence and compliance requirements.
Amends the AML Regulations to strengthen due diligence and reporting in line with evolving FATF standards.
2022 amendment to the AML Regulations — the most recent revision of the core AML compliance duties.
Establishes the national committee that coordinates and oversees the jurisdiction's AML/CFT policy and inter-agency cooperation.
The principal subsidiary legislation for Nevis's anti-money-laundering regime, setting out the core obligations of regulated businesses: customer due diligence, record-keeping, ongoing monitoring and suspicious-transaction reporting. Amended several times since.
2026 amendment to the Anti-Proliferation Act, updating the primary anti-proliferation-financing legislation.
2022 amendment to the anti-proliferation regulations.
2026 regulations setting out the targeted-financial-sanctions regime for proliferation financing — the most recent subsidiary legislation in this area.
Principal Act establishing targeted financial sanctions and controls to counter the financing of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
Regulations implementing the Anti-Proliferation Act, setting out targeted-financial-sanctions procedures.
2015 amendment updating the Anti-Terrorism Act.
2012 amendment to the Anti-Terrorism Act, refining its provisions.
Further 2012 amendment to the Anti-Terrorism Act.
Amends the Anti-Terrorism Act, strengthening terrorist-financing offences and enforcement.
The most recent amendment to the Anti-Terrorism Act (2026), updating its provisions in line with current international requirements.
Sets out the procedure for persons or entities to apply to be removed (de-listed) from terrorist designation lists.
2022 amendment to the terrorist-financing prevention regulations — the most recent revision.
2021 amendment to the terrorist-financing prevention regulations.
The principal counter-terrorism statute, criminalising terrorism and terrorist financing and providing related enforcement powers. Amended multiple times.
Subsidiary legislation implementing the Anti-Terrorism Act, including measures to prevent terrorist financing.
Updated regulations under the Anti-Terrorism Act reflecting current counter-financing-of-terrorism standards.
The form used to apply for approval of a newly appointed compliance or reporting officer.
Gives effect to the CARICOM double taxation agreement, allocating taxing rights and relieving double taxation among CARICOM member states.
Governs the escrow accounts that hold Citizenship-by-Investment funds, providing safeguards over CBI monies.
Second 2020 amendment to the Citizenship-by-Investment Regulations.
2020 amendment to the Citizenship-by-Investment Regulations.
2021 amendment to the Citizenship-by-Investment Regulations.
2022 amendment to the Citizenship-by-Investment Regulations.
Order specifying exclusions under the Citizenship-by-Investment programme.
The 2023 Citizenship-by-Investment Regulations governing the programme's operation and requirements.
Commencement order bringing specified sections of the Citizenship by Investment Unit Act into force.
Commencement order bringing further specified sections of the Citizenship by Investment Unit Act into force.
2023 Regulations governing the Citizenship-by-Substantial-Investment route.
2018 amendment to the CRS Regulations, updating due-diligence and reporting requirements.
2020 amendment aligning the automatic exchange of financial account information with current CRS standards.
Enacts the OECD Common Reporting Standard in domestic law, requiring financial institutions to identify and report accounts held by foreign tax residents for automatic exchange with partner jurisdictions.
Regulations implementing the Common Reporting Standard Act — the due-diligence and reporting procedures financial institutions must follow.
The companies ordinance governing the formation and administration of companies, relevant to oversight of NPOs and corporate vehicles.
Gives domestic legal effect to the tax agreement with Aruba, providing for the exchange of information on tax matters between St Kitts & Nevis and Aruba.
Gives domestic legal effect to the tax agreement with Australia, providing for the exchange of information on tax matters between St Kitts & Nevis and Australia.
Gives domestic legal effect to the tax agreement with Belgium, providing for the exchange of information on tax matters between St Kitts & Nevis and Belgium.
Gives domestic legal effect to the tax agreement with Canada, providing for the exchange of information on tax matters between St Kitts & Nevis and Canada.
Gives domestic legal effect to the tax agreement with Denmark, providing for the exchange of information on tax matters between St Kitts & Nevis and Denmark.
Gives domestic legal effect to the tax agreement with Faroes, providing for the exchange of information on tax matters between St Kitts & Nevis and Faroes.
Gives domestic legal effect to the tax agreement with Finland, providing for the exchange of information on tax matters between St Kitts & Nevis and Finland.
Gives domestic legal effect to the tax agreement with French Republic, providing for the exchange of information on tax matters between St Kitts & Nevis and French Republic.
Gives domestic legal effect to the tax agreement with Germany, providing for the exchange of information on tax matters between St Kitts & Nevis and Germany.
Gives domestic legal effect to the tax agreement with Greenland, providing for the exchange of information on tax matters between St Kitts & Nevis and Greenland.
Gives domestic legal effect to the tax agreement with Guernsey, providing for the exchange of information on tax matters between St Kitts & Nevis and Guernsey.
Gives domestic legal effect to the tax agreement with India, providing for the exchange of information on tax matters between St Kitts & Nevis and India.
Gives domestic legal effect to the tax agreement with Ireland, providing for the exchange of information on tax matters between St Kitts & Nevis and Ireland.
Gives domestic legal effect to the tax agreement with Liechtenstein, providing for the exchange of information on tax matters between St Kitts & Nevis and Liechtenstein.
Gives domestic legal effect to the tax agreement with Netherlands, providing for the exchange of information on tax matters between St Kitts & Nevis and Netherlands.
Gives domestic legal effect to the tax agreement with Netherlands Antilles, providing for the exchange of information on tax matters between St Kitts & Nevis and Netherlands Antilles.
Gives domestic legal effect to the tax agreement with New Zealand, providing for the exchange of information on tax matters between St Kitts & Nevis and New Zealand.
Gives domestic legal effect to the tax agreement with Norway, providing for the exchange of information on tax matters between St Kitts & Nevis and Norway.
Gives domestic legal effect to the tax agreement with Portuguese Republic, providing for the exchange of information on tax matters between St Kitts & Nevis and Portuguese Republic.
Gives domestic legal effect to the tax agreement with South Africa, providing for the exchange of information on tax matters between St Kitts & Nevis and South Africa.
Gives domestic legal effect to the tax agreement with Sweden, providing for the exchange of information on tax matters between St Kitts & Nevis and Sweden.
Gives domestic legal effect to the tax agreement with United Kingdom, providing for the exchange of information on tax matters between St Kitts & Nevis and United Kingdom.
Criminalises computer- and internet-based offences (cybercrime) and provides investigative powers relevant to financially-motivated electronic crime.
Implements and enforces the intergovernmental agreement under the US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), providing for reporting of US account-holders' financial information.
Establishes the Financial Intelligence Unit — the national body that receives, analyses and disseminates suspicious-transaction reports and financial intelligence.
Regulations governing how information held by financial-service providers is exchanged with competent authorities.
2022 amendment to the Industry Standards Regulations — the most recent update to required compliance standards.
Amends the 2011 Industry Standards Regulations to update the standards licensees must apply.
Requires financial-service licensees to implement recognised international industry standards; the base regulation for supervised compliance.
The Act establishing the Financial Services Regulatory Commission and its powers to license, supervise and regulate financial services in St Kitts & Nevis.
The Commission's risk-based framework for supervising licensees' anti-money-laundering, counter-terrorist-financing and counter-proliferation-financing compliance.
The Commission's prudential supervision framework, setting out how licensees are assessed and supervised on a risk basis.
Amends the schedule to the Gaming (Control) Act 2021.
Establishes the licensing and control regime for gaming operators.
Gives domestic legal effect to the tax agreement with Monaco, providing for the exchange of information on tax matters between St Kitts & Nevis and Monaco.
Gives domestic legal effect to the tax agreement with San Marino, providing for the exchange of information on tax matters between St Kitts & Nevis and San Marino.
Guidance on the minimum standards and duties expected of appointed compliance and reporting officers.
Sets the criteria the Commission applies when approving a compliance or reporting officer.
Omnibus Act amending several financial-services statutes together to update the supervisory framework.
Omnibus Act amending several statutes at once to bring the Federation's framework into line with Financial Action Task Force recommendations.
Amends the schedule to the Money Services Business Act.
Principal Act licensing and regulating money-services businesses such as remittance and money-transfer providers.
Framework for providing and requesting mutual legal assistance in criminal matters between St Kitts & Nevis and other states.
Prescribes the forms and fees under the NTCSP Ordinance.
Commencement order bringing the NTCSP Ordinance 2021 into force.
Ordinance governing the licensing and supervision of Nevis trust and corporate service providers.
2020 amendment to the Non-Government Organisations Act.
2021 amendment to the Non-Government Organisations Act.
Principal Act for the registration and oversight of non-government (non-profit) organisations, addressing terrorist-financing risk in the NPO sector.
Provides for the prevention, investigation and control of organised crime, complementing the AML and anti-terrorism framework.
Second 2011 amendment to the Proceeds of Crime Act.
2011 amendment to the Proceeds of Crime Act.
2012 amendment to the Proceeds of Crime Act.
The most recent amendment to the proceeds-of-crime framework, updating the 2020 Act.
The original statute enabling confiscation and recovery of the proceeds of criminal conduct; largely superseded by the 2020 Act but retained for reference.
The current principal law on confiscation and recovery of criminal proceeds, modernising and replacing much of the earlier Proceeds of Crime Act.
The form used to renew the approval of a compliance or reporting officer.
The form used to renew a money-services-business licence.
2013 amendment to the Mutual Exchange of Information on Taxation Matters Act.
2015 amendment to the Mutual Exchange of Information on Taxation Matters Act.
Principal Act enabling the exchange of tax information with treaty partners — the legal basis for the jurisdiction's tax information exchange agreements.
An amendment to the Proceeds of Crime Act; consult the document itself for the specific provisions and commencement.
Amends the schedule to the Virtual Asset Act.
Prescribes the forms used under the virtual-asset licensing regime.
Principal Act establishing the licensing and supervision regime for virtual-asset business.
2021 amendment to the Virtual Asset Act.
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