Law Society NSW AML: what the public hub is telling members

A search for “law society nsw aml” is a solicitor wanting the association’s page, not a vendor’s. The public page is the Law Society of NSW AML/CTF Hub. Checked on 2 October 2026. This is general information, not legal advice, and not a Society publication. This page does not reproduce the hub, the implementation guides, or any member document. Whether a matter is in the regime is /tranche-2.

What the public hub is for

The hub is the Society’s front door for NSW solicitors on these reforms. It explains that providing a designated service is what makes a practice a reporting entity, and it sends readers to AUSTRAC for the service test. The plain sorting aid on this site, which is not the Society’s, is Table 6 designated services. The order of questions is the designated services decision tree.

• Starter kits. The hub points most practices at AUSTRAC’s program starter kits, and names the legal and conveyancing kits as the two that usually matter. How to customise a kit, without treating a download as approval, is customising the AUSTRAC starter kit.
• The Society’s own guides. The hub links an implementation guide for sole practitioners and small practices, and another for medium and large practices. Those documents stay on the Society’s site. This article does not summarise their templates, examples, or page ranges.
• A designated-services article and courses. The hub also points at the Society’s own article on when legal work is in, and at education the Society offers. Read those on the hub. This page does not stand in for them.

The obligations the hub is pointing at

Read the hub for the Society’s wording. In short, a practice that provides a designated service is being told to enrol with AUSTRAC, keep an AML/CTF program, name a compliance officer, train the people who touch the work, be ready to do customer due diligence, report what must be reported, and keep records. The same list is AUSTRAC’s. The officer role in a one-person practice is the sole trader compliance officer. The customer step is customer due diligence requirements.

The hub also says, in its public questions, that a practice does not have to hire an outside firm, and that using a vendor does not move the legal duty off the practice. Read that answer there. This page does not restate it. Conduct rules, privilege, and costs precedents are on the hub as well. They are the Society’s. This article does not reproduce them.

After that summary, the check is optional tooling

FreeAML is not the hub, and the Society is not endorsing it here. When the program says a designated matter needs an identity or entity check, the firm can email the client a link. The firm suite is A$0. Verification is client-pays. On the public list a personal KYC check is A$20 and a company or trust KYB check is A$40. Confirm the live amounts on FreeAML pricing. The day-to-day legal workflow is AML checks for lawyers.

That email does not enrol the firm, approve the program, or decide that a matter is a designated service. If the file is out, do not send a check to look busy. If the file is in, the record of the check is the firm’s, kept with the program the firm approved. Re-read the hub when the Society updates it. This page does not reproduce it.

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