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(1)A person nominated to receive disclosures under section 330 commits an offence if the conditions in subsections (2) to (4) are satisfied.
(2)The first condition is that he—
(a)knows or suspects, or
(b)has reasonable grounds for knowing or suspecting,
that another person is engaged in money laundering.
(3)The second condition is that the information or other matter—
(a)on which his knowledge or suspicion is based, or
(b)which gives reasonable grounds for such knowledge or suspicion,
came to him in consequence of a disclosure made under section 330.
(4)The third condition is that he does not make the required disclosure as soon as is practicable after the information or other matter comes to him.
(5)The required disclosure is a disclosure of the information or other matter—
(a)to a person authorised for the purposes of this Part by the Director General of the National Criminal Intelligence Service;
(b)in the form and manner (if any) prescribed for the purposes of this subsection by order under section 339.
(6)But a person does not commit an offence under this section if he has a reasonable excuse for not disclosing the information or other matter.
(7)In deciding whether a person committed an offence under this section the court must consider whether he followed any relevant guidance which was at the time concerned—
(a)issued by a supervisory authority or any other appropriate body,
(b)approved by the Treasury, and
(c)published in a manner it approved as appropriate in its opinion to bring the guidance to the attention of persons likely to be affected by it.
(8)Schedule 9 has effect for the purpose of determining what is a supervisory authority.
(9)An appropriate body is a body which regulates or is representative of a trade, profession, business or employment.
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