{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/anti-terrorism-financial-and-other-measures-overseas-territories-order-2002/article-13",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2002/1822",
  "legislation_title": "The Anti-terrorism (Financial and Other Measures) (Overseas Territories) Order 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/anti-terrorism-financial-and-other-measures-overseas-territories-order-2002",
  "path": "article/13",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Cooperation with police",
  "text": "(1) A person does not commit an offence under any of articles 6 to 9 if he is acting with the express consent of a constable.\n(2) Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4), a person does not commit an offence under any of articles 6 to 9 by involvement in a transaction or arrangement relating to money or other property if he discloses to a constable—\n(a) his suspicion or belief that the money or other property is terrorist property, and\n(b) the information on which his suspicion or belief is based.\n(3) Paragraph (2) applies only where a person makes a disclosure—\n(a) after he becomes involved in the transaction or arrangement concerned,\n(b) on his own initiative, and\n(c) as soon as is reasonably practicable.\n(4) Paragraph (2) does not apply to a person if—\n(a) a constable forbids him to continue his involvement in the transaction or arrangement to which the disclosure relates, and\n(b) he continues his involvement.\n(5) It is a defence for a person charged with an offence under any of articles 6(2) and (3) and 7 to 9 to prove that—\n(a) he intended to make a disclosure of the kind mentioned in paragraphs (2) and (3), and\n(b) there is reasonable excuse for his failure to do so.\n(6) Where—\n(a) a person is in employment, and\n(b) his employer has established a procedure for the making of disclosures of the same kind as may be made to a constable under paragraph (2),\nthis article shall have effect in relation to that person as if any reference to disclosure to a constable included a reference to disclosure in accordance with the procedure.\n(7) A reference in this article to a transaction or arrangement relating to money or other property includes a reference to use or possession.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/1822/article/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:52:46.996914+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}