Terrorism Act 2000

Expenses incurred in connection with forfeiture

50 (1) Where money or other property falls to be dealt with in accordance with paragraph 47(3), the relevant officer may—

(a) deduct allowable forfeiture expenses from that money;

(b) retain so much of that property as he considers necessary for the purpose of realising it and deducting allowable forfeiture expenses from the proceeds of realisation.

(2) Where property is delivered up in pursuance of paragraph 47(3) and the relevant officer has not made provision under sub-paragraph (1) for all the allowable forfeiture expenses then—

(a) a person who has incurred allowable forfeiture expenses for which provision has not been made shall have a claim to their value in the insolvency proceedings, and

(b) the expenses in question shall be treated for the purposes of the insolvency proceedings as if they were expenses of those proceedings.

(3) In this paragraph “allowable forfeiture expenses”—

(a) means expenses incurred in relation to the forfeited property by the relevant officer,

(b) means expenses incurred in relation to the forfeited property by a receiver, administrator or other person appointed by the relevant officer,

(c) means expenses incurred in relation to the forfeited property by any person appointed or directed to deal with any property under paragraph 16, and

(d) includes sums paid or required to be paid under paragraph 2(1)(d), 16(1)(c) or 30(1)(d).