The Proceeds of Crime (Countries and Territories designated under the Drug Trafficking Act 1994) (1997 Order) (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1998

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Proceeds of Crime (Countries and Territories designated under the Drug Trafficking Act 1994) Order (Northern Ireland) 1997 (“the principal Order”) which provides that, subject to certain modifications, the Proceeds of Crime (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 (“the Order”) applies to an order made by a court in any of the countries and territories listed in Schedule 1 (being countries and territories designated under section 39 of the Drug Trafficking Act 1994) for the purpose of recovering payments or other rewards received in connection with drug trafficking or their value, and to proceedings which have been or are to be instituted in a designated country and may result in such an order being made there.

Article 2 of this Order and the Schedule add to the list of countries to which the principal Order applies. In addition it amends the schedule to the principal Order so that the appropriate authority for Trinadad and Tobago is included and that for Hong Kong is revised. Article 3 of this Order amends a modification of the Order in the principal Order by the substitution of the word “believing” for the word “thinking” at Article 30(1)(c) in Schedule 3 of the principal Order. Article 4 amends the Appendix set out at the end of paragraph 32 of Schedule 2 to the principal Order so that the point of institution of proceedings for Trinidad and Tobago is included and that for Australia is revised. Article 5 of this Order makes a like amendment to the Order as modified in Schedule 3 of the principal Order.

By virtue of Article 1(1) this Order comes into operation on 1st February 1999.