Clause 55 - Sums received by justices' chief executive
Proceeds of Crime Bill
10:30 am
Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield, Conservative)
My earlier question was a lead-in to clause 55, which concerns the sums received by justices' chief executives. The clause, as we are told helpfully in the explanatory notes, sets out how an enforcing justices' chief executive must dispose of any moneys received in satisfaction of a confiscation order, whether from a receiver appointed under clause 50 or otherwise. We are told that the provision is similar to the current legislation except that an existing power for the justices' chief executive to reimburse the prosecutor out of confiscated moneys for sums the prosecutor has paid to a receiver in advance has been abolished, and the money will go to the Consolidated Fund.
After reading that note, I read clause 55. I had great difficulty understanding subsection (7), which is why I tabled an amendment to remove it, on the basis that, if I could not understand it, perhaps it had no business to be in the Bill. The sensible thing to do may be for me to sit down to allow the Minister to explain it.