Which Queensland parties to a conveyance each owe CDD

People search “Queensland conveyancing who does CDD” when a Brisbane settlement has a listing agent and two law firms, and each office hopes another office has already done customer due diligence. Checked against AUSTRAC’s professional designated services page on 4 October 2026. This is general information, not legal advice. This page does not reproduce that guidance. Who the customer is, once you know the service is yours, is who the customer is in real estate. The conveyancer’s service test is assisting a transfer. The sector map is /tranche-2.

The contract has parties. The Act has services.

A conveyance in Queensland can have a seller, a buyer, a listing agent, a buyer’s agent, and a lawyer or conveyancer on each side. Those are parties to a deal. Customer due diligence attaches to a designated service a firm provides, not to the fact that someone’s name is on the contract.

Professional bodies in Queensland publish commentary. The obligation still comes from the Commonwealth regime. This page does not reproduce a state FAQ.

• Listing agent. If selling the property is a designated service they provide, they do their own customer due diligence. They do not do the buyer’s lawyer’s.
• Buyer’s agent. A separate firm, a separate service, a separate customer. Sharing the same property does not share the file.
• Seller’s lawyer or conveyancer. Assisting the transfer may be their designated service. The agent’s VOI pack is not that work.
• Buyer’s lawyer or conveyancer. Same test, other client. Do not accept the other side’s PDF as your program’s record.

Who owes what on one Brisbane file

Where the Queensland parties page stops

This page splits the firms on a Queensland conveyance. It is not the general test of who the customer is, and it is not the national note on assisting a transfer. Those are who the customer is in real estate and assisting a transfer.

What the client pays

On FreeAML the firm suite is A$0. The firm emails the client a link. 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. Use KYB when the customer is a company or a trust. Another firm’s check is not included in your firm suite, and you cannot spend their result as if it were yours. Confirm the live amounts on FreeAML pricing. FreeAML does not decide which Queensland firm owes customer due diligence on a given file.

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