Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Proceeds of Crime (Countries and Territories designated under the Criminal Justice Act 1988) (1998 Order) (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 and shall come into operation on 5th April 1999.

(2) “the Order” means the Proceeds of Crime (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 and “the principal Order” means the Proceeds of Crime (Countries and Territories designated under the Criminal Justice Act 1988) Order (Northern Ireland) 1998(2).

2.  There shall be inserted in Schedule 1 to the principal Order, at the appropriate places in alphabetical order, the entries for those countries specified in the Schedule to this Order being countries and territories designated under section 96 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988(3).

3.  The Appendix set out at the end of paragraph 32 of Schedule 2 to the principal Order (institution of proceedings) shall be amended as follows—

(a)after the entry for Thailand, there shall be inserted the following entry—

4.  A like amendment to the amendment in Article 3 above shall be made to the Appendix to Article 4(2) of the Order, as set out in Schedule 3 to the principal Order.

Article 2

SCHEDULE

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order.)

This Order amends the Proceeds of Crime (Countries and Territories designated under the Criminal Justice Act 1988) Order (Northern Ireland) 1998 (“the principal Order”) which provides that, subject to certain modifications, the Proceeds of Crime (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 (“the Order”) applies to an order made by a court in any of the countries and territories listed in Schedule 1 to the principal Order (being countries and territories designated under Section 96 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988) for the purposes of recovering property obtained as a result of or in connection with conduct corresponding to certain offences, recovering the value of the property so obtained or of depriving a person of a pecuniary advantage so obtained.

Article 2 of this Order and the Schedule add to the list of countries to which the principal Order applies. Article 3 amends the Appendix set out at the end of paragraph 32 of Schedule 2 to the principal Order so that the point of institution of proceedings for Trinidad and Tobago is included. Article 4 of this Order make a like amendment to the Order as modified in Schedule 3 to the principal Order.

By virtue of Article 1(1) this Order comes into operation on 5th April 1999.