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Practice question: Safe Harbor Provision

Multiple Choice Easy

Practice question

Does AMLA's reporting safe harbor concern only suspicious reports, excluding qualifying covered-transaction reports?
  1. No; it expressly extends to covered or suspicious transaction reports.
  2. Yes; covered reports are categorically excluded.
  3. Yes; only a report to a newspaper qualifies.
  4. No; because it protects every act of the reporting person for life.
  5. Yes; only reports filed after conviction are covered.

Legal references

  • RA 9194, Sections 1-2 and 6, AMLA transaction definitions and Section 9(c) safe harbor: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2003/ra_9194_2003.html
  • RA 10365, Sections 1 and 7, covered persons and reporting amendments: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2013/ra_10365_2013.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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