TERRORISM (PREVENTION) (AMENDMENT) ACT
Section 4: Substitution for section 10
Substitute for section 10 of the Principal Act a new section "10"-
Funds to support terrorism
10-(1) A person or body corporate who, in any manner, directly or indirectly, willingly provides, solicits or collects any fund or attempts to provide, solicit or collect any fund with the intention or knowledge that they will be used, in full or in part to-
(a) finance a terrorist or terrorist organization ;
(b) commit an offence in breach of an enactment specified in the Schedule to this Act, or
(c) do any other act intended to cause death or serious bodily injury to a civilian or any other person not taking active part in the hostilities in a situation of armed conflict, when the purpose of such act, by its nature or context is to intimidate agroup of people or to compel a government or an international organization to do or abstain from doing any act, commits an offence under this Act and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term of not less than ten years and in the case of a corporate body-
(i) to a fine of not less "than N100,000,000,
(ii) the prosecution of the principalofficers of the corporate body who are on conviction be liable to imprisonment tor a term of not less than ten years, and
(iii) the winding up of the corporate body and prohibition from its reconstitution or incorporation under any form or guise.
(2) An offence under this section shall apply. regardless of whether the person alleged to have committed the offence is in the same country or a different country from the one in which-
(a) the terrorist, terrorist group or proscribed organisation is Iocated; or
(b) the terrorist act occurred or is planned to occur.
(3) In proving the offence of terrorist financing, it shall not be required that the funds- .
(a) were actually used to carry out terrorist acts;
(b) were used to attempt a terrorist act ; or
(c) be linked to a specific terrorist act.
(4) For the purpose of this section, intention may be inferred from objective factual circumstances."
Cite this section
Section 4, TERRORISM (PREVENTION) (AMENDMENT) ACT (2013).
https://repo.podus.ai/laws/terrorism-prevention-amendment-act/section/4/