{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/proceeds-of-crime-act-2002-external-requests-and-orders-order-2005/article-70A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/proceeds-of-crime-act-2002-external-requests-and-orders-order-2005/article-70A.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/70A",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "70A",
  "heading": "Orders for securing compliance with external order",
  "text": "(1) This article applies where the court registers an external order.\n(2) The court may make such order in relation to the registered person as it believes is appropriate for the purpose of ensuring that the external order is effective (a “compliance order”).\n(3) The court must consider whether to make a compliance order—\n(a) when it registers the external order; and\n(b) if it does not make a compliance order then, at any later time (while the registration of the external order is still in effect) on an application made by the Lord Advocate.\n(4) The court may recall or vary a compliance order on an application made by—\n(a) the Lord Advocate;\n(b) the registered person.\n(5) In this article and article 70B “registered person” means the person named in the external order which has been registered by the court.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Arts. 70A, 70B inserted (11.8.2016) by The Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (External Requests and Orders) (Amendment) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/662), arts. 1, 14"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/3181/article/70A",
    "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."
}