--- name: map-designated-services-l0cka title: Map Designated Services description: Map whether services described by an Australian legal practice are designated services under table 6 of subsection 6(5B) of the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act 2006 (Cth), applying AUSTRAC's sufficiently-linked principles, the customer definition, standing exemptions and the incidental trust-money exemption, with every item verified against official sources. Use when a practice needs to know if a service line, engagement type or proposed offering may trigger AML/CTF obligations. Do not use for other tranche 2 sectors, for tranche 1 services, to decide enrolment or to give final legal advice — an unmapped service fails closed to human review. author: l0cka author_url: https://github.com/l0cka/legal-skills/tree/main/plugins/australian-aml-ctf/skills/map-designated-services license: MIT version: 0.1.0 execution_mode: open jurisdiction: au practice: contracts language: en --- # 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](../../references/aml-ctf-source-and-control-method.md), use an approved profile per the [practice profile schema](../../references/aml-ctf-practice-profile-schema.md) and work from the [designated services registry](references/designated-services-registry.json). ## 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`. ```text Services assessed: Profile: Mapping: Exemption claims: Verified: Out of scope flags: Human decision gate: Limitations: ``` ## 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.