New Zealand Legislation: Acts

23B Third parties to be notified of registration of foreign forfeiture order

• Where, in accordance with section 56 of the Mutual Assistance Act, the High Court orders the registration in New Zealand of a foreign forfeiture order against property, the Court shall direct the Solicitor-General to serve notice of the registration—

  • (a) On a specified person or specified persons (other than a person convicted of a foreign serious offence in respect of which the foreign forfeiture order was made) whom the Court has reason to believe may have an interest in the property; and

  • (b) In such manner and within such time as the Court thinks fit.

  Compare: Proceeds of Crime Act 1987 (Aust), s 23A(2)

  Sections 23A to 23D and the preceding heading were inserted, as from 1 April 1993, by section 4 Proceeds of Crime Amendment Act 1992 (1992 No 87).