PART 3Finance
CHAPTER 1Finance restrictions in relation to designated persons
Making economic resources available for benefit of designated person15
1
A person (“P”) must not make economic resources available to any person for the benefit of a designated person if P knows, or has reasonable cause to suspect, that P is making the economic resources so available.
2
Paragraph (1) is subject to Part 7 (Exceptions and licences).
3
A person who contravenes the prohibition in paragraph (1) commits an offence.
4
For the purposes of paragraph (1)—
a
economic resources are made available for the benefit of a designated person only if that person thereby obtains, or is able to obtain, a significant financial benefit, and
b
“financial benefit” includes the discharge (or partial discharge) of a financial obligation for which the designated person is wholly or partly responsible.