Part 3 - Sanctions Chapter 1 – Monetary Penalties Section 54 Imposition of monetary penalties
This section amends section 146 of the Policing and Crime Act 2017 so that civil monetary penalties can be applied to persons for breaches of financial sanctions with no requirement for OFSI to prove that the person had knowledge or reasonable cause to suspect their activity breached sanctions. The burden on OFSI to prove that there was a breach of a prohibited act or failure to comply with an obligation remains.
	Subsection (1A) refers to financial sanctions legislation as defined in section 143 of the Act and makes clear that in determining for the purposes of section 146(1) whether a person has breached a prohibition, or failed to comply with an obligation, any requirement imposed by financial sanctions legislation for the person to have known, suspected or believed any matter must be ignored.