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Proliferation financing (PF)

AML/CTF

The financing of weapons-of-mass-destruction proliferation. The 2024 Amendment Act extended s.26C of the AML/CTF Act 2006 to require PF risk to be considered alongside money-laundering and terrorism-financing risks in a reporting entity's risk assessment. Practically, club venues address PF in the same risk-assessment document as ML/TF — the AUSTRAC-communicated risk information is the primary input for PF calibration.

This term sits in the AML/CTF section of the working glossary — vocabulary that recurs across the AUSTRAC reporting-entity regime, the AML/CTF Act 2006, and the AML/CTF Rules 2025.

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