The Confiscation of the Proceeds of Drug Trafficking (Designated Countries and Territories) (Scotland) Amendment (No.2) Order 1993

• Citation: S.I. 1993/3156
• Sections: 3

Section 1

(1) This Order may be cited as the Confiscation of the Proceeds of Drug Trafficking (Designated Countries and Territories) (Scotland) Amendment (No.2) Order 1993 and shall come into force on 1st February 1994.

(2) In this Order “ the Act ” means the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1987 and “the principal Order ” means the Confiscation of the Proceeds of Drug Trafficking (Designated Countries and Territories) (Scotland) Order 1991 .

Section 2

Schedule 1 to the principal Order shall be amended as follows:–

(a) by inserting, in the appropriate alphabetical position, the entries for those countries and territories specified in the Schedule to this Order (including where so specified the appropriate authority for a country or territory);

(b) by deleting the entry specifying the appropriate authority for Switzerland; and

(c) by inserting, opposite the entry for Switzerland, the following entry;

“Office federal de la police”.

Section 3

The Appendix set out at the end of Schedule 3 to the principal Order (which defines when proceedings are instituted for the purposes of section 47(5)(a)(i) of the Act as modified by article 3(2) of and Schedule 2 to the principal Order) shall be amended by inserting, after the entry relating to Montserrat, the following:–

(a) when a pre-trial financial investigation has been initiated;

(b) when the provisional measure has been ordered by an investigating magistrate;

(c) when a public prosecutor has requested a pre-trial criminal investigation by an investigating magistrate to be instituted;

(d) when a public prosecutor has laid an indictment