New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CRIMINAL ASSETS RECOVERY ACT 1990 - SECT 52A

52A Registration of interstate orders

(1) If an interstate assets forfeiture order, interstate crime related property declaration or interstate restraining order expressly, or by operation of the law of the Commonwealth, another State or a Territory, applies to property in New South Wales, the order may be registered under this Act.

(2) An order or declaration is registered under this Act when a copy of the order or declaration, sealed by the court or body that issued the order or declaration, is registered in accordance with the rules of the Supreme Court.

(3) A sealed copy of an interstate assets forfeiture order, interstate crime related property declaration or interstate restraining order is not required for the purposes of registration if it is not the practice of the court or body that issued the order or declaration to seal copies of a declaration.

(4) Any amendments made to an interstate assets forfeiture order, interstate crime related property declaration or interstate restraining order (before or after registration) may be registered in the same way. Any such amendment has no effect for the purposes of this Act until it is registered.

(5) An application for registration may be made by the person on whose application the order or declaration or amendments were made, by an authorised officer or by a person affected by the order or declaration or amendments.