{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/proceeds-of-crime-northern-ireland-order-1996/schedule-2/paragraph-3A",
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  "legislation": "nisi/1996/1299",
  "legislation_title": "The Proceeds of Crime (Northern Ireland) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/proceeds-of-crime-northern-ireland-order-1996",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/3A",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3A",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Where it appears to a financial investigator that a specified person may have benefited from his criminal conduct the investigator may by notice in writing require any solicitor to furnish specified information to the investigator within a specified time and in a specified manner.\n(1A) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) the question whether a person has benefited from his criminal conduct is to be decided in accordance with Part 4 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002.\n(2) The information which may be specified under sub-paragraph (1) is whether at any time during a specified period the specified person was a client of the solicitor in respect of—\n(a) any land or business;\n(b) a company, firm, partnership or trust;\n(c) a bank or other account; or\n(d) any assets in the nature of investments, being assets of the specified person.\n(3) Where the specified person was a client as mentioned in sub-paragraph (2), the solicitor shall furnish to the investigator—\n(a) the full name of the client;\n(b) the most recent and all known previous addresses of the client;\n(c) the date of birth (if known) of the client;\n(d) other evidence of identity of the client obtained in accordance with the Money Laundering Regulations 1993; and\n(e) specified details of the nature of any transaction relating to any matter mentioned in that sub-paragraph.\n(4) In its application by virtue of Article 49(1B), this paragraph shall have effect as if—\n(a) for references to a financial investigator there were substituted references to a National Crime Agency officer or a relevant Director (within the meaning of Article 49(5));\n(b) in sub-paragraphs (1) and (1A) for “benefited from his criminal conduct” there were substituted “obtained property through unlawful conduct”; and\n(c) in paragraph (1A) for “Part 4” there were substituted “Part 5”.\n(5) Where this paragraph applies by virtue of Article 49 (1B), then—\n(a) paragraphs 4(2), 5 and 6 apply for the purposes of this paragraph with the modification mentioned in sub-paragraph (4)(a); and\n(b) paragraphs 7 and 8 do not apply for those purposes.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "2001 NI 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "2002 c. 29"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "2002 c. 29"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "2005 NI 15"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 3A(4) substituted (1.4.2008) by Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 and Serious Crime Act 2007 (Consequential and Supplementary Amendments to Secondary Legislation) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/574), art. 2, Sch. para. 5(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 3A(4)(a) substituted (7.10.2013) by Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(2), Sch. 8 para. 54; S.I. 2013/1682, art. 3(v)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1996/1299/schedule/2/paragraph/3A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:41:52.395604+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."
}