PART 1Proceeds of crime

CHAPTER 1Investigations

Disclosure orders

8Disclosure orders: Scotland

(1)

Chapter 3 of Part 8 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (investigations: Scotland) is amended as follows.

(2)

In section 391(disclosure orders)—

(a)

in subsection (1) after “confiscation investigations” insert “ or money laundering investigations ”;

(b)

in subsection (2) omit “or a money laundering investigation”;

(c)

in subsection (3) after paragraph (a) insert—

“(aa)

a person specified in the application is subject to a money laundering investigation and the order is sought for the purposes of the investigation, or”.

(3)

In section 392 (requirements for making a disclosure order), in subsection (2) after paragraph (a) insert—

“(aa)

in the case of a money laundering investigation, the person specified in the application for the order has committed a money laundering offence;”.

(4)

In section 396 (supplementary)—

(a)

in subsection (1) in paragraph (a) after “confiscation investigation” insert “ or a money laundering investigation ”;

(b)

in subsection (3) in paragraph (a) after “confiscation investigation” insert “ or a money laundering investigation ”.