Map Designated Services L0cka

Map Designated Services

Map described legal services to the designated services in table 6 of the amended AML/CTF Act. Separate designated, not designated and cannot be determined — never guess and never clear a service the registry does not cover.

Read the source and control method, use an approved profile per the practice profile schema and work from the designated services registry.

Workflow

1. Fix the services and time.
   • Record each service to be mapped: what the practice actually does, for whom, the client-facing outcome and whether it is current or proposed. Record the date of assessment.
   • Require an approved, current practice profile; record any gap.
2. Map each service against the registry.
   • Test the described activity against each table 6 item in the registry, applying the recorded scope notes: the sufficiently-linked principles (assistance must directly advance the transaction, creation or restructure — merely influencing, general advice or ancillary services is not enough), the in-the-course-of-carrying-on-a-business element, the external-customer requirement and, for items 1–2, the court-or-tribunal-order carve-out.
   • Verify the item text and any decisive element against the Act through $check-commonwealth-legislation at the assessment date; record the AUSTRAC guidance section relied on with its last-updated date.
3. Test exemptions as claims, not conclusions.
   • Where the profile claims a standing exemption (legal aid commission, community legal centre, barrister acting for Australian government bodies) or the incidental trust-money position under subsection 6(5C), record the claimed basis and its decisive facts. Note that the trust-money exemption operates at the level of the whole practice, so any designated service elsewhere in the practice defeats it.
4. Assemble the map.
   • For each service: designated (item number, why each element is met), not designated (which element fails and why) or cannot be determined (what fact or verification is missing). Note the geographical-link element as a separate check for cross-border services.
   • Flag consequences for human decision only — enrolment timing and obligations are stated as verified propositions with sources, never as directions.
5. Set the human decision gate.
   • Name the reviewer who must confirm the mapping, resolve every cannot be determined entry and decide any next step.

Result contract

Lead with READY FOR HUMAN REVIEW, READY WITH QUALIFICATIONS, NOT READY or OUTSIDE SCOPE.

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Services assessed: <service; current or proposed; assessment date>
Profile: <approved identifier and version>
Mapping: <service → designated (item, elements met) | not designated
  (failing element) | cannot be determined (missing fact)>
Exemption claims: <claimed basis; decisive facts; evidence state>
Verified: <provision or guidance; source URL; evidence state; checked date>
Out of scope flags: <non-legal sector services, tranche 1 services, IFTI>
Human decision gate: <reviewer; unresolved entries; decisions required>
Limitations: <mapping is issue-spotting, not advice; no enrolment action>

Fail closed

Return NOT READY when a decisive fact about the service, the customer or the profile cannot be established, and mark any service the registry does not cover cannot be determined — never not designated. Never map services of other tranche 2 sectors or tranche 1 entities, never conclude an exemption applies, and never treat AUSTRAC guidance as the statute it interprets.

Other plugins

This skill names skills from other Legal Skills plugins. Install a required plugin alongside this one; install a hand-off plugin when the matter needs that depth.

• australian-legal-research (required): check-commonwealth-legislation. Verifies the AML/CTF Act, Rules and amending instruments against the Federal Register of Legislation.

If a named skill is not available in this session, say so and name the plugin to install. Treat the step it would have performed as not done: record the affected proposition as not verified, or the hand-off as not made. Never perform that step from memory or substitute a different skill.