{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/proceeds-of-crime-act-2002-external-requests-and-orders-order-2005/article-152",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/proceeds-of-crime-act-2002-external-requests-and-orders-order-2005/article-152.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/3181",
  "legislation_title": "The Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (External Requests and Orders) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/proceeds-of-crime-act-2002-external-requests-and-orders-order-2005",
  "path": "article/152",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "152",
  "heading": "Functions of interim receiver",
  "text": "(1) An interim receiving order may authorise or require the interim receiver—\n(a) to exercise any of the powers mentioned in Schedule 2,\n(b) to take any other steps the court thinks appropriate,\nfor the purpose of securing the detention, custody or preservation of the property to which the order applies or of taking any steps under paragraph (2).\n(2) An interim receiving order—\n(a) must require the interim receiver to take any steps which the court thinks necessary to establish whether or not the property to which the order applies is recoverable property or associated property, and\n(b) may require him to take any steps which the court thinks necessary to establish whether or not any other property is recoverable property (which satisfies the tests in article 202(1) and (2) or 203) and, if it is, who holds it.\n(3) If—\n(a) the interim receiver deals with any property which is not property to which the order applies, and\n(b) at the time he deals with the property he believes on reasonable grounds that he is entitled to do so in pursuance of the order,\nthe interim receiver is not liable to any person in respect of any loss or damage resulting from his dealing with the property except so far as the loss or damage is caused by negligence.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 152 in force at 1.1.2006, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/3181/article/152",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:45:32.650973+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."
}