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directions, instructions or wishes of A or, where A is a corporation, of the directors of A;
(d) A is a person who is accustomed or under an obligation, whether formal or informal, to engage in conduct in accordance with the directions, instructions or wishes of the relevant individual;
(e) the relevant individual is a person who is accustomed or under an obligation, whether formal or informal, to engage in conduct in accordance with the directions, instructions or wishes of A; or
(f) A is related to the relevant individual in such other manner as may be prescribed by Regulations.

Opportunity to be heard before designation, etc.

49.—(1) Before the competent authority, on its own volition, designates a relevant entity or relevant individual under section 47(1) or 48(1), the competent authority must, unless the competent authority considers it not practicable or desirable to do so in any particular case—

(a) give notice of the competent authority’s intention to do so to the entity or individual concerned; and
(b) give that entity or individual (as the case may be) 14 days after the date of the notice (or such longer time as the competent authority may specify in the notice) to make representations on the proposed designation.

(2) Once a designation is made under section 47(1) or 48(1), the competent authority must, without delay, give notice of the designation as follows:

(a) to the relevant entity or relevant individual who is designated;
(b) to any other person who, in the competent authority’s opinion, ought to have notice of the designation.