Valid from 03/12/2014
[F141E(1)Where this paragraph applies the Secretary of State must send a copy of the overseas freezing order to the High Court and to the Director of Public Prosecutions for Northern Ireland.U.K.
(2)The court is to consider the overseas freezing order on its own initiative within a period prescribed by rules of court.
(3)Before giving effect to the overseas freezing order, the court must give the Director an opportunity to be heard.
(4)The court may decide not to give effect to the overseas freezing order only if, in its opinion, giving effect to it would be incompatible with any of the Convention rights (within the meaning of the Human Rights Act 1998).]
Textual Amendments
F1Sch. 4 Pt. 3 paras. 41A-41G and cross-headings inserted (prosp.) by Crime (International Co-operation) Act 2003 (c. 32), ss. 90, 94(1), Sch. 4 para. 7