Pay per use · from $20 + GST
Terms and conditions
This is not a government website. Read these terms before you enter any client information.
EZPEP is a privately operated, pay-per-use screening aid for legal practices, conveyancers and real estate agents. It is intended to assist you to collect customer due diligence (CDD) particulars and to consider whether a client — an individual/sole trader or a trust, including any person acting on their behalf — may be a politically exposed person (PEP), a relative or close associate (RCA), the subject of sanctions listings, or the subject of open-source adverse media, in connection with Australian anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing (AML/CTF) obligations. This website is not a government website. EZPEP is not AUSTRAC, ASIC, the Australian Business Register, the Document Verification Service, the Australian Taxation Office, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, or any other Commonwealth, State or Territory agency. Nothing on this site is an official determination, clearance, enrolment, identity verification, or regulatory approval.
EZPEP does not provide legal advice, AML/CTF program design, or a substitute for your customer due diligence, enhanced due diligence, or reporting obligations. A completed check on this site is an aid. It is not, by itself, full KYC or KYB under the AML/CTF Act 2006 and the AML/CTF Rules. You remain the reporting entity (or the person providing a designated service). You must apply your own AML/CTF program, professional judgement and, where appropriate, independent legal advice.
The identity step collects the fields a Document Verification Service (DVS) gateway uses for an Australian driver licence or passport. Until a live DVS gateway is connected, this step is a field-format check only. It is not a government verification and is not a DVS match or no-match. Where a trust has an ABN or ACN, confirmation is against the Australian Business Register public record. Many trusts have no such identifier, which is normal. Beneficial owners, trustees, appointors, settlors and beneficiaries are not published on any free record — you must collect them.
All reasonable care is taken in operating this service. To the maximum extent permitted by law, EZPEP, its operator, and any person acting on their behalf accept no responsibility or liability for: • any error, omission, delay, or incompleteness in a report, ABN look-up, DVS field check, document reading, or source list; • any match, non-match, or “clear” result that later proves incorrect; • any loss, cost, penalty, regulatory action, claim or damage arising from your use of, or reliance on, this service; • any failure of third-party registers, search indexes, payment providers, or email delivery. Reports are based on open-source information available to the screening model at the time of the check. Open-source screening is not exhaustive and is not a commercial PEP database. Absence of a hit is not proof that a person or trust is not a PEP, RCA, or sanctioned. A potential match is not proof that they are.
By continuing you confirm that: • the firm and contact details you enter are true and complete, and that you are authorised to use this service for that firm; • you will review every field before payment, and you are responsible for the accuracy of information submitted; • where you photograph or scan identity documents, you have the client’s permission to do so; • you have met the client personally (or the person acting for a trust), or you will not proceed unless you can honestly make that confirmation; • you will download the 7-year record pack and keep it in your matter file — EZPEP does not store client information after the session; • you will not use this service to check a person or trust other than in connection with a genuine professional matter.
Client identity information, identity-document numbers, photographs and the screening report are not written to EZPEP databases, disks, or backups. Photographs used on a mobile device are processed to extract fields and are then discarded. Firm details may be remembered in your own browser so you do not re-type them, and a usage notice containing firm details only (not client details) is prepared for the site owner after payment. When a live DVS gateway is connected, identity fields needed for a match are sent to that gateway for that check only and are not filed by EZPEP.
AUSTRAC expects reporting entities to keep customer identification and CDD records for 7 years after the end of the customer relationship or the last designated service. Because EZPEP does not store client information, you must download the PDF and JSON pack produced at the end of a check and retain it in your own systems. If you leave without downloading, those records are gone. That is a privacy design, not a record-keeping service.
Fees are $20.00 plus GST for an individual/sole trader, or $30.00 plus GST for a trust, per document (the PEP screening report or the CDD pack); a bundle of both documents is $30.00 plus GST for an individual/sole trader or $50.00 plus GST for a trust. There is no subscription. A sample payment page is used until live card processing is connected. No refund is payable merely because a result is “clear”, a potential match, or inconclusive.
You must not reverse engineer the service, overload it, submit information you know is false, or use it for any unlawful purpose. We may refuse a check.
These terms are governed by the laws of New South Wales, Australia. If any part is unenforceable, the remainder continues.