Part 7Money Laundering
Offences
332Failure to disclose: other nominated officers
(1)
A person nominated to receive disclosures under section 337 or 338 commits an offence if the conditions in subsections (2) to (4) are satisfied.
(2)
The first condition is that he knows or suspects that another person is engaged in money laundering.
(3)
The second condition is that the information or other matter on which his knowledge or suspicion is based came to him in consequence of a disclosure made under section 337 or 338.
(4)
The third condition is that he does not make the required disclosure as soon as is practicable after the information or other matter comes to him.
(5)
The required disclosure is a disclosure of the information or other matter—
(a)
to a person authorised for the purposes of this Part by the Director General of the National Criminal Intelligence Service;
(b)
in the form and manner (if any) prescribed for the purposes of this subsection by order under section 339.
(6)
But a person does not commit an offence under this section if he has a reasonable excuse for not disclosing the information or other matter.