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Proceeds of Crime Act 2002

Section 331: Failure to disclose: nominated officers in the regulated sector

485.Section 331 creates an offence where a nominated officer who receives a report under section 330 (the failure to disclose offence) which causes him to know or suspect or gives reasonable grounds for knowledge or suspicion, that money laundering is taking place, does not disclose that report as soon as practicable after the information comes to him. Subsection (5) specifies that the "required disclosure" which a nominated officer must make, has to be made to the National Criminal Intelligence Service, in the form and manner (if any) prescribed by the order making power at section 339.

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