Enrol with us (Reform)

If you’re a current reporting entity and you haven’t already enrolled or registered, find out how to enrol and register. 

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What this guidance covers

If you provide a designated service with a geographical link to Australia you must enrol. If you’re a remittance or virtual asset service provider, you must enrol and register.      

This guidance will help you get ready for the changes to enrolment and registration if you are either:

This guidance outlines your upcoming obligations to help you prepare and will be updated when we complete the relevant systems and forms. 

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Enrol with us

This section refers to the Act sections 51B(1) and 236B(2) and the Amendment Act 2024 section 2 and schedule 3 part 4 sections 11 and 12.

Enrolment for all new designated services will open from 31 March 2026 and can’t be done earlier. You must submit your application no later than 28 days after the day you start providing a designated service.  

Key dates

The date you need to enrol by depends on the designated services you provide.

Intermediaries, remittance and virtual asset service providers

There are new designated services that start on 31 March 2026 for businesses that do any of the following:

If you provide these services on 31 March 2026 you’ll have until 28 April 2026 to enrol. You’ll also need to register with us if you are a remittance or virtual asset service provider. 

Learn how to register with us as a remittance or virtual asset service provider.

Real estate, professional services and dealers in precious metals, stones and products

There are new designated services that start on 1 July 2026 for businesses that do any of the following: 

If you provide any of these services on 1 July 2026, you’ll have until 29 July 2026 to enrol. 

Current reporting entities

If you provide any of the new designated services, you must update your enrolment and registration details with information on these services from 31 March 2026. 

The Department of Home Affairs is considering transitional rules to determine how long you’ll have to update your details. The impact of these rules will be included in this guidance once known. 

If you’re a member of a reporting group, you must enrol with us, or update your existing enrolment details, if you’re: 

  • a reporting entity
  • the lead entity. 

Learn more about reporting groups.

Adding you to the Reporting Entities Roll

We’ll add you to the Reporting Entities Roll (the Roll) when your enrolment is finalised. 

Information you must provide

This section refers to the Rules division 1 of part 3.

To complete your enrolment application, you must include information about the services you provide and your business. 

This includes information about your earnings over a 12-month period if you’re a reporting entity earning $100,000,000 or more.

Your application for enrolment must contain the following if you’re:

  • not part of a corporate group – your earnings for a period of 12 months
  • part of a corporate group – your earnings for a period of 12 months. You must also include the earnings of all the other members who are reporting entities.

As part of your enrolment the person completing the enrolment must:

  • provide some personal details
  • confirm the provided information is true and accurate. 

Learn more about the information you need to provide in part 3 of the Rules. 

Further detail about the new form will be available before the laws start on 31 March 2026.

Updating your details

This section refers to the Act section 51F and the Rules division 1 of part 3.

 

You must keep your enrolment details up to date.

This includes changes to information on your designated services and business that you provided in your application.

You must change your enrolment details within 14 days of the change occurring.

Record keeping for enrolment

This section refers to the Act sections 26F(1), 51B(1) and 116(1).

After you complete your enrolment, we expect you to keep records showing you’ve provided the required information. 

You can do this by keeping a copy of both your: 

  • enrolment confirmation email
  • completed enrolment form.

Requesting removal from the Reporting Entities Roll

This section refers to the Act section 51G and the Rules section 3–8.

You may apply in writing to be removed from the Roll. The process for doing this will be provided in future guidance. 

Your request for removal must include information on whether you:

  • have stopped providing designated services
  • wish to continue providing designated services in the financial year after you submit the request
  • are required to submit any reports to us.

You’ll continue to have obligations while you remain on the Roll. For example, you must continue to submit an annual compliance report. 

This guidance sets out how we interpret the Act, along with associated Rules and regulations. Australian courts are ultimately responsible for interpreting these laws and determining if any provisions of these laws are contravened. 

The examples and scenarios in this guidance are meant to help explain our interpretation of these laws. They’re not exhaustive or meant to cover every possible scenario.

This guidance provides general information and isn't a substitute for legal advice. This guidance avoids legal language wherever possible and it might include generalisations about the application of the law. Some provisions of the law referred to have exceptions or important qualifications. In most cases your particular circumstances must be taken into account when determining how the law applies to you.

Last updated: 16 Oct 2025
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