Convention on the Suppression of Terrorist Financing Act 2005 · As enacted
3. Offences
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Any person who, by any means, directly or indirectly, unlawfully and wilfully provides or collects funds, with the intention that such funds should be used, or in the knowledge that they are to be used or having reason to believe that they are likely to be used, in full or in part, in order to commit,—
an act which constitutes an offence within the scope of, or within the definition of any one of the Treaties specified in Schedule I hereto ;
any other act, intended to cause death or serious bodily injury, to civilians or to any other person not taking an active part in the hostilities, in a situation of armed conflict, and the purpose of such act, by its nature or context is to intimidate a population or to compel a government or an international organization, to do or to abstain from doing any act, shall be guilty of the offence of financing of terrorists or terrorist organizations :
Provided that, for an act to constitute the offence set out above, it shall not be necessary to show that the funds collected were actually used in the commission of an offence.
Any person who—
attempts to commit ;
aids or abets the commission of ; or
acting with a common purpose with another person or a group of persons, contributes to the commission of, the offence of financing of terrorists or terrorist organizations, shall be guilty of an offence under this Act.
In this subsection “abet” has the same meaning as in sections 100 and 101 of the Penal Code.
Where an offence specified in subsection (1) or subsection (2) of this section is committed by a body of persons, then, every member, Director, Manager, Secretary, officer or servant of such body of persons shall be guilty of such offence, unless it can be proved that the offence was committed without their knowledge or that they exercised all due diligence to prevent the commission of such offence.
A person guilty of an offence under subsection (1) or subsetion (2) of this section, shall on conviction after trial on indictment by the High Court, be punished with imprisonment for a term not less than fifteen years and not exceeding twenty years, and also be liabe to a fine.