Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

PROCEEDS OF CRIME ACT 1987 - SECT 23

  (1)   If:

  (a)   a foreign forfeiture order is registered in a court in Australia under the Mutual Assistance Act; or

  (b)   an order is registered in a court in Australia under section   45 of the International War Crimes Tribunals Act 1995 ;

Division   2 applies in relation to the order as if subsections   19(5) and 20(3), (4), (5) and (6) and sections   21 and 22 were omitted.

  (2)   If:

  (a)   a foreign forfeiture order against property is registered in a court in Australia under the Mutual Assistance Act; or

  (b)   an order against property is registered in a court in Australia under section   45 of the International War Crimes Tribunals Act 1995 ;

the property may, subject to section   23A, be disposed of, or otherwise dealt with, in accordance with any direction of the Minister administering the Mutual Assistance Act or of a person authorised by that Minister in writing for the purposes of this subsection.