New Zealand Legislation: Acts

10 Prohibition on making property, or financial or related services, available to designated terrorist entity

• (1) A person commits an offence who makes available, or causes to be made available, directly or indirectly, without lawful justification or reasonable excuse, any property, or any financial or related services, either to, or for the benefit of, an entity, knowing that the entity is a designated terrorist entity.

  (2) [Repealed]

  (3) An example of making property available with a reasonable excuse, for the purposes of subsection (1), is where the property (for example, items of food, clothing, or medicine) is made available in an act that does no more than satisfy essential human needs of (or of a dependant of) an individual designated under this Act.

  (4) Subsection (1) does not apply if the Prime Minister has, under section 11, authorised the making available of the property or services.

  (5) A person who commits an offence against subsection (1) is liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 7 years.

  (6) In this section, make available, in relation to any property or services, means to make the property or services available in any way and by any means (for example, to send, transfer, deliver, or provide the property or services).

  (7) A reference in subsection (6) to the transfer of property that is a security includes a reference to a transfer of the security by way of loan, mortgage, pledge, or bailment, whether in respect of a legal or an equitable interest.

  Compare: SR 2001/26 rr 3(2), 16

  Section 10 heading: amended, on 20 November 2007, by section 9(1) of the Terrorism Suppression Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 102).

  Section 10(1): amended, on 20 November 2007, by section 9(2) of the Terrorism Suppression Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 102).

  Section 10(2): repealed, on 20 November 2007, by section 9(3) of the Terrorism Suppression Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 102).