s.26Co-operating with Reporting Authority and the police
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Section 26Part 3 — Terrorist Property

Co-operating with Reporting Authority and the police

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A person does not commit an offence under sections 19 to 22 if he is acting with the express consent of the Reporting Authority or of a constable.
Subject to subsections (3) and (4), a person does not commit an offence under sections 19 to 22 by involvement in a transaction or arrangement relating to property if he discloses to the Reporting Authority or to a constable —
his suspicion or belief that the property is terrorist property; and
the information on which his suspicion or belief is based.
Subsection (2) applies only where a person makes a disclosure after he becomes involved in the transaction concerned, on his own initiative and as soon as is reasonably practicable.
Subsection (2) does not apply to a person if the Reporting Authority or the constable forbids him to continue his involvement in the transaction or arrangement to which the disclosure relates and he continues his involvement.
It is a defence for a person charged with an offence under any of sections 19(2), 19(3) or 20 to 22 to prove that —
he intended to make a disclosure of the kind mentioned in subsections (2) and (3); and
there is reasonable excuse for his failure to do so.
Where —
a person is employed by another person; and
his employer has established a procedure for the making of disclosures of the same kind as may be made to the Reporting Authority or to a constable under subsection (2),
this section shall have effect in relation to that person as if any reference to disclosure to the Reporting Authority or to the constable included a reference to disclosure in accordance with the procedure.
A reference in this section to a transaction or arrangement relating to property includes a reference to its use or possession.

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