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CRIMINAL PROPERTY CONFISCATION ACT 2000 - SECT 161

161 .         Term used: sham transaction

        (1)         For the purposes of this Act, a person carries out a sham transaction if —

            (a)         the person carries out a transaction within the meaning of subsection (2); and

            (b)         the transaction was carried out for the purpose of directly or indirectly defeating, avoiding, preventing or impeding the operation of this Act in any respect.

        (2)         For the purposes of subsection (1), the person carries out a transaction if the person carries out, makes, gives or designs —

            (a)         any agreement, arrangement, understanding, promise or undertaking, whether express or implied and whether or not enforceable, or intended to be enforceable, by legal proceedings; or

            (b)         any scheme, plan, proposal, action, course of action, or course of conduct.



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