Proceeds of Crime Act 2002

226 Gifts and their recipientsN.I.

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(1)If the defendant transfers property to another person for a consideration whose value is significantly less than the value of the property at the time of the transfer, he is to be treated as making a gift.

(2)If subsection (1) applies the property given is to be treated as such share in the property transferred as is represented by the fraction—

(a)whose numerator is the difference between the two values mentioned in subsection (1), and

(b)whose denominator is the value of the property at the time of the transfer.

(3)References to a recipient of a tainted gift are to a person to whom the defendant has made the gift.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1Pt. 4 applied by S.I. 1989/1341 (N.I. 12), arts. 57(5B), 59(8B) (as substituted (24.3.2003) by Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (c. 29), Supreme Court s. 458(1), Sch. 11 para. 19(2)(3); S.I. 2003/333, art. 2, Sch.)

Commencement Information

I1S. 226 in force at 24.3.2003 by S.I. 2003/333, art. 2, Sch.