http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/29/section/310/2008-04-01Proceeds of Crime Act 2002An Act to establish the Assets Recovery Agency and make provision about the appointment of its Director and his functions (including Revenue functions), to provide for confiscation orders in relation to persons who benefit from criminal conduct and for restraint orders to prohibit dealing with property, to allow the recovery of property which is or represents property obtained through unlawful conduct or which is intended to be used in unlawful conduct, to make provision about money laundering, to make provision about investigations relating to benefit from criminal conduct or to property which is or represents property obtained through unlawful conduct or to money laundering, to make provision to give effect to overseas requests and orders made where property is found or believed to be obtained through criminal conduct, and for connected purposes.2002-08-12texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2026-06-30Expert Participation2008-04-01 Part 5Civil recovery of the proceeds <Abbreviation Expansion="et cetera" xml:lang="la">etc.</Abbreviation> of unlawful conductChapter 4General Recoverable property Granting interests3101If a person grants an interest in his recoverable property, the question whether the interest is also recoverable is to be determined in the same manner as it is on any other disposal of recoverable property.2Accordingly, on his granting an interest in the property (“the property in question”)—awhere the property in question is property obtained through unlawful conduct, the interest is also to be treated as obtained through that conduct,bwhere the property in question represents in his hands property obtained through unlawful conduct, the interest is also to be treated as representing in his hands the property so obtained.