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(1) Where a person has been charged with an offence under this Act, the Executive Director may serve on that person a notice to make a declaration of that person a notice to make a declaration of that person’s property and income.

(2) The person who is served with the notice shall lodge two signed copies of the declaration with the Auditor-General within twenty-eight days after receipt of the notice.

(3) The Auditor-General shall not reveal the content of the declaration except in accordance with this Act or on the order of a Court.

(4) The declaration of property and income shall contain the following information:

(a) property received or expected to be received by the accused person;

(b) property held or disposed of by the accused person including property held by any other person or in the name of any other person on behalf of the accused person; and

(c) the income and the source of the income whether the person charged has actually received it or not.

(5) Where a person charged and given notice to make a declaration fails to make a declaration of property and income within the period specified

(a) that person commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of not more than two thousand penalty units or to imprisonment for a term of not more than two years or to both, and

(b) the property or income which has not been declared is liable to confiscation to the Republic.

(6) A person who intentionally or negligently fails to disclose any information required to be disclosed in a declaration of property and income, commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of not more than two thousand penalty units or to imprisonment for a term of not more than two years or both.