- (b) for any other politically significant person, the period of 12 months starting 1 January and ending 31 December in any year,
- and includes an initial relevant period.
Return of anonymous political donations
59.—(1) Subject to this Act, where an anonymous political donation is offered to a politically significant person, and sections 56 and 57 prohibit the politically significant person from accepting (whether wholly or in part) that donation, the following requirements must be complied with:
- (a) if the donation was transmitted by a person (other than the donor) and the identity of that person is apparent, the whole donation must be returned to that person;
- (b) if paragraph (a) does not apply but it is apparent that the donor has, in connection with the donation, used any facility provided by an identifiable financial institution, the whole donation must be returned to that financial institution;
- (c) in all other cases, the whole donation must be sent to the competent authority.
(2) Any amount collected by the competent authority under subsection (1)(c) must be paid into the Consolidated Fund.
Return of political donations
60.—(1) Where a political donation is received by a politically significant person and it is not immediately decided that the politically significant person should (for whatever reason) refuse the political donation, all reasonable steps must be taken without delay by or on behalf of the politically significant person to verify or, so far as the following is not apparent, ascertain—
- (a) the identity of the donor;
- (b) whether the donor is—
- (i) a permissible donor; or
