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Practice question: Covered Persons and Their Obligations

Multiple Choice Hard

Practice question

A compliance manual still says only a supervising authority may extend the default reporting period to ten working days under the older text. Which current statutory provision corrects that description?
  1. RA 10365 permits AMLC to prescribe a different period not exceeding fifteen working days.
  2. The old ten-day wording can never be amended.
  3. All reporting periods were abolished by RA 11521.
  4. Only the customer may set reporting deadlines.
  5. RA 12312 makes all AML reports optional.

Legal references

  • RA 9160, Section 9(a)-(b), customer identification and recordkeeping: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2001/ra_9160_2001.html
  • RA 10365, Sections 1 and 7, covered persons and reporting amendments: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2013/ra_10365_2013.html
  • RA 10927, casino coverage and casino covered-transaction threshold: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2017/ra_10927_2017.html
  • RA 11521, amended covered-person and covered-transaction provisions: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2021/ra_11521_2021.html
  • RA 12312, Sections 8 and 17, Anti-POGO Act AMLA amendment: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2025/ra_12312_2025.html

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