{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-policing-act-2026/schedule-21/paragraph-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-policing-act-2026/schedule-21/paragraph-9.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2026/20",
  "legislation_title": "Crime and Policing Act 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-policing-act-2026",
  "path": "schedule/21/paragraph/9",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Benefit",
  "text": "(1) The Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 76 (conduct and benefit), after subsection (7) insert—\n“(8) But in a case where—\n(a) the person—\n(i) intended to have only a limited power to control or dispose of all or part of the property,\n(ii) held the property temporarily, or\n(iii) is treated as obtaining the property as a result of section 84(3), and\n(b) the court believes that the amount found under subsection (7) in relation to the property would produce a result that would be unjust,\nthe court may reduce that amount to such amount (including zero) as the court believes is just.”\n(3) In section 84 (property: general provisions)—\n(a) in subsection (2)(b), at the end insert “(and see subsection (3))”;\n(b) after subsection (2) insert—\n“(3) If, as a result of or in connection with conduct, a person keeps property that the person already has, where the court believes it just to do so the person is to be treated as obtaining the property as a result of or in connection with the conduct.”",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 21 para. 9 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 255(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 21 para. 9 in force at 29.6.2026 by S.I. 2026/689, reg. 2(1)(z12)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2026/20/schedule/21/paragraph/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:30:58.060228+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}