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Article 41
 

(1) Where a donation exceeding five hundred euro (€500) is offered to a political party, a member of a political party or candidate, it shall be their duty to take all reasonable steps to carry out due diligence in order to verify:


(a) the identity of the donor; and


(b) whether the donation is a permissible donation.


(2) If the donation is offered by a donor who is not a permissible donor or the donor has not been sufficiently identified, after reasonable steps have been taken in accordance with sub-article (1), the political party, the member of a political party or candidate, shall refuse such donation.


(3) In the case where a donation has been accepted by the political party, the member of a political party or candidate and the donee discovers that, notwithstanding that such reasonable steps have been taken in accordance with sub-article (1), the donor was not a permissible donor or that the identity was false, the donee shall within thirty (30) days return the donation to the donor or to the person purporting to be the donor or deposit the amount of the donation in Court.


(4) Whenever a political party, a member of a political party or a candidate, as the case may be, does not act in conformity with the provisions of sub-articles (1), (2) or (3), he shall be liable to an administrative fine of five thousand euro (€5,000).