{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/proceeds-of-crime-act-2002-external-requests-and-orders-order-2005/article-34",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/proceeds-of-crime-act-2002-external-requests-and-orders-order-2005/article-34.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/34",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "34",
  "heading": "Sums received by relevant Director",
  "text": "(1) This article applies if a relevant Director receives sums on account of the amount payable under a registered external order or the value of the property specified in the order.\n(2) The relevant Director’s receipt of the sums reduces the amount payable under the order, but he must apply the sums received as follows.\n(3) First he must apply them in payment of such expenses incurred by a person acting as an insolvency practitioner as—\n(a) are payable under this paragraph by virtue of article 3, but\n(b) are not already paid under article 33(2)(a).\n(4) He must next apply them—\n(a) first, in payment of the remuneration and expenses of a receiver appointed under article 15 to the extent that they have not been met by virtue of the exercise by that receiver of a power conferred under article 16(2)(d);\n(b) second, in payment of the remuneration and expenses of the receiver appointed under article 27,\n(c) third, in payment to an appropriate officer of any amount to which the officer is entitled by virtue of article 48B(3).\n(5) Any sums which remain after the relevant Director has made any payments required by the preceding provisions of this article must be paid into the Consolidated Fund.\n(6) Paragraph (4) does not apply if the receiver is a member of the staff of the Crown Prosecution Service or the Serious Fraud Office; and it is immaterial whether he is a permanent or temporary member or he is on secondment from elsewhere.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 34(4)(c) inserted (30.11.2015) by The Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (External Requests and Orders) (Amendment) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/1750), arts. 1(2), 14"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 34(6) 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. 17"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 34 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/34",
    "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."
}