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PROCEEDS OF CRIME ACT 1991 NO 103 (REPEALED) - SECT 17

Making of confiscation order where person has absconded

Where a person is, by reason of section 5 (1) (d), to be taken to have been convicted of an indictable offence, a court shall not make a confiscation order in reliance on the person's conviction of the offence unless the court is satisfied, on the balance of probabilities, that the person has absconded and—

        (a)     the person has been committed for trial for the offence; or

        (b)     the court is satisfied, having regard to all the evidence before it, that a reasonable jury, properly instructed, could lawfully find the person guilty of the offence.



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