Hong Kong Regulations

DRUG TRAFFICKING (RECOVERY OF PROCEEDS) (DESIGNATED COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES) ORDER - PARAGRAPH 7

Satisfaction of confiscation order in a designated country

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) Where-

   (a)  a confiscation order has been made under section 3 of the Ordinance;

   (b)  a request has been sent by the Secretary for Justice to the
        appropriate authority of a designated country for assistance in
        enforcing that order; and

   (c)  in execution of that request property is recovered in that country,
        the amount payable under the confiscation order shall be treated as
        reduced by the value of property so recovered.

(2) For the purposes of this paragraph, and without prejudice to the
admissibility of any evidence which may be admissible apart from this
subparagraph, a certificate purporting to be issued by or on behalf of the
appropriate authority of a designated country stating that property has been
recovered there in execution of a request by the Secretary for Justice,
stating the value of the property so recovered and the date on which it was
recovered shall, in any proceedings in a court in Hong Kong, be admissible as
evidence of the facts so stated. (Enacted 1991. L.N. 362 of 1997)