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In section 56 of the 2000 Act (acceptance or return of donations: general), after subsection (3) there is inserted—
“(3A)Where a party or its treasurer is charged with an offence under subsection (3), it shall be a defence to prove that—
(a)all reasonable steps were taken by or on behalf of the party to verify (or ascertain) whether the donor was a permissible donor, and
(b)as a result, the treasurer believed the donor to be a permissible donor.”
Commencement Information
I1S. 12 in force at 1.1.2010 by S.I. 2009/3084, art. 4(a)