Committee on Standards in Public Life: The Funding of Political Parties in the United Kingdom
R5-31
Published October 1998
Response position and delivery status are recorded separately. Acceptance does not establish implementation.
Recommendation (the Committee's words)
Criminal sanctions should attach to a deliberate acceptance of a donation from a source falling outside the definition of a permissible source. There should be a power for the court to order a defaulting political party to forfeit a sum of up to ten times the donation wrongfully accepted. (p 77)
From: Committee on Standards in Public Life, The Funding of Political Parties in the United Kingdom, October 1998