{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/proceeds-of-crime-act-2002-external-requests-and-orders-order-2005/article-40",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/proceeds-of-crime-act-2002-external-requests-and-orders-order-2005/article-40.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/40",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "40",
  "heading": "Protection of receiver appointed under articles 15, 27 and 30",
  "text": "If a receiver appointed under article 15 or 27—\n(a) takes action in relation to property which is not realisable property or, as the case may be, the specified property,\n(b) would be entitled to take the action if it were realisable property or, as the case may be, the specified property, and\n(c) believes on reasonable grounds that he is entitled to take the action,\nhe is not liable to any person in respect of any loss or damage resulting from the action, except so far as the loss or damage is caused by his negligence.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 40 substituted (1.4.2008) by The Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (External Requests and Orders) (Amendment) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/302), arts. 1(1), 2(15)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 40 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/40",
    "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."
}