PART 33CONFISCATION AND RELATED PROCEEDINGS

GENERAL RULES

InterpretationI133.1

In this Part words and expressions used have the same meaning as in Part 2 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 and:

  • ‘document’ means anything in which information of any description is recorded;

  • ‘hearsay evidence’ means evidence consisting of hearsay within the meaning of section 1(2) of the Civil Evidence Act 1995753;

  • ‘restraint proceedings’ means proceedings under sections 42 and 58(2) and (3) of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002754;

  • ‘receivership proceedings’ means proceedings under sections 48, 49, 50, 51, 54(4), 59(2) and (3), 62 and 63 of the 2002 Act755;

  • ‘witness statement’ means a written statement signed by a person which contains the evidence, and only that evidence, which that person would be allowed to give orally.