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Section 90, Terrorism Act, 2012
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(1) Where a person obtains property as the result of or inconnection with the commission of an offence, his benefit is the
value of the property so obtained.
(2) Where a person derives a reward or advantage as a
result of or in connection with the commission of an unlawful activity
or offence, his reward or advantage shall be deemed to be a sum of
money equal to the value of the reward or advantage so derived.
Offences in
relation to
tracking, etc.
Appeals.
Pecuniary
penalty order
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conviction.
Rules of
determining
benefit and
assessing
value.
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(3) The Court, in determining whether a person has
benefited from the commission of an unlawful activity or offence or
from that offence taken together with other offences shall, unless the
contrary is proved, deem–
(a) all property appearing to the Court to be held
by the person on the day on which the
application is made; and
(b) all property appearing to the Court to be held
by the person at any time–
(i) within the period between the day the
unlawful activity or offence, or the
earliest unlawful activity or offence was
committed and the day on which the
application is made;
(ii) within the period of six years immediately
before the day on which the application
is made,
whichever is the longer, to be property that came into the possession
or under the control of the person by reason of the commission of
that unlawful activity or offence or those unlawful activities or
offences for which the person was convicted;
(c) any expenditure by the person since the
beginning of that period to be expenditure
met out of payments received by him as a
result of or in connection with, the
commission of that unlawful activity or
offence or those unlawful activities or
offences; and
(d) any property received or deemed to have
been received by the person at any time as a
result of or in connection with the
commission by him of that unlawful activity
or offence or those unlawful activities or
offences as property received by him free of
any interest in it.
(4) Where a pecuniary penalty order has been previously
made against a person, in assessing the value of any benefit derived
by him from the commission of the unlawful activity or offence, the
Court shall leave out of account any benefits that are shown to the
Court to have been taken into account in determining the amount to
be recovered under that order.
(5) If evidence is given at the hearing of the application
that the value of the person’s property at any time after the commission
of the unlawful activity or offence exceeded the value of the person’s
property before the commission of the unlawful activity or offence,
then the Court shall, subject to subsection (6) treat the value of the
benefit as being not less than the amount of that excess.
(6) If, after evidence of the kind referred to in subsection
(5) is given, the person satisfies the Court that the whole or part of
the excess was due to causes unrelated to the commission of the
unlawful activity or offence, subsection (5) does not apply to the
excess or, as the case may be, that part.
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