Article 18 Action on receipt of external order in connection with criminal convictionsI1
United Kingdom
Except where paragraph (2) applies, the Secretary of State may refer an external order arising from a criminal conviction in the country from which the order was sent and concerning relevant property in England or Wales F1to the Director of Public Prosecutions to process it.
This paragraph applies where it appears to the Secretary of State that—
the property or sum of money specified in the order was found, or was believed, to have been obtained as a result of, or in connection with, criminal conduct involving serious or complex fraud, and
the order concerns relevant property in England or Wales.
Where paragraph (2) applies, the Secretary of State may refer the order to the Director of the Serious Fraud Office to process it.
In this Chapter “the relevant Director” means the Director to whom an external order is referred under paragraph (1) or (3).
Where an order concerns relevant property which is in Scotland or Northern Ireland as well as England or Wales, so much of the request as concerns such property shall be dealt with under Part 3 or 4, respectively.
Annotations
Textual amendments
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Words in art. 18(1) substituted (27.3.2014) by The Public Bodies (Merger of the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Director of Revenue and Customs Prosecutions) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/834), art. 1(1), Sch. 3 para. 16