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The Confiscation of the Proceeds of Drug Trafficking (Designated Countries and Territories) (Scotland) Order 1991
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Application of provisions relating to fines to enforcement of external confiscation orders
7.—(1) An external confiscation order which has been registered by the Court of Session in terms of section 30A of this Act shall be remitted for enforcement to and shall be enforceable as if it were a fine imposed under the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975(1) by the sheriff of Lothian and Borders at Edinburgh.
(2) (a) Where an external confiscation order has been remitted to the sheriff in terms of subsection (1) of this section the sheriff may at any time except where an administrator has been appointed in relation thereto order that it shall be enforced by civil diligence;
(b)an order in terms of paragraph (a) of this subsection shall have the effect of authorising the like diligence as if the external confiscation order was a fine imposed under the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 and, without prejudice to the foregoing generality, inhibition and adjudication and such diligence, whatever the amount of the external confiscation order, may be executed in the same manner as if the proceedings were on an extract decree of the sheriff in a summary cause.
(3) Any sums recovered in respect of an external confiscation order shall be payable to and recoverable by the proper office in Exchequer for Her Majesty’s use.
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