Crimes Legislation Amendment (Serious and Organised Crime) Act 2010 (3 of 2010)

Schedule 2   Other amendments relating to proceeds of crime

Part 3   Confiscation scheme and instruments of serious offences

Proceeds of Crime Act 2002

49   At the end of section 47

Add:

Refusal to make a forfeiture order

(4) Despite subsection (1), the court may refuse to make an order under that subsection relating to property that the court is satisfied:

(a) is an *instrument of a *serious offence other than a *terrorism offence; and

(b) is not *proceeds of an offence;

if the court is satisfied that it is not in the public interest to make the order.


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