The Proceeds of Crime (Countries and Territories designated under the Criminal Justice Act 1988) Order (Northern Ireland) 1998

Satisfaction of confiscation order in a designated country

7.—(1) Where—

(a) a confiscation order has been made under Article 8 of the Order in respect of an offence to which the Order applies other than a drug trafficking offence; and

(b) a request has been sent by the Secretary of State to the appropriate authority of a designated country for assistance in enforcing that order; and

(c) in execution of that request property is recovered in that country,

the amount payable under the confiscation order shall be treated as reduced by the value of the property so recovered.

(2) For the purposes of this Article, and without prejudice to the admissibility of any evidence which may be admissible apart from this paragraph, a certificate purporting to be issued by or on behalf of the appropriate authority of a designated country stating that property has been recovered there in execution of a request by the Secretary of State, stating the value of the property so recovered and the date on which it was recovered shall, in any proceedings in a court in Northern Ireland, be admissible as evidence of the facts so stated.