Section 20 Disclosure of information: permission.C1

United Kingdom

(1)

A person may disclose to a constable—

(a)

a suspicion or belief that any money or other property is terrorist property or is derived from terrorist property;

(b)

any matter on which the suspicion or belief is based.

(2)

A person may make a disclosure to a constable in the circumstances mentioned in section 19(1) and (2).

(3)

Subsections (1) and (2) shall have effect notwithstanding any restriction on the disclosure of information imposed by statute or otherwise.

(4)

Where—

(a)

a person is in employment, and

(b)

his employer has established a procedure for the making of disclosures of the kinds mentioned in subsection (1) and section 19(2),

subsections (1) and (2) 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.

(5)

F1References to a constable include references to a F2National Crime Agency officer authorised for the purposes of this section by the Director General of F3that Agency .

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: S. 20(5) inserted (20.12.2001) by 2001 c. 24, s. 3, Sch. 2 Pt. 3 para. 5(5); S.I. 2001/4019, art. 2(1)(c)
F2: Words in s. 20(5) substituted (7.10.2013) by Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(2), Sch. 8 para. 69; S.I. 2013/1682, art. 3(v)
F3: Words in s. 20(5) substituted (1.4.2006 subject to art. 4(2)-(7) of the commencing S.I.) by Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (c. 15), s. 59, Sch. 4 para. 127(b); S.I. 2006/378, art. 4(1), Sch.

Modifications

C1: S. 20 applied (19.2.2001) by S.I. 2001/192, reg. 3