The Criminal Procedure Rules 2020

Payment of money held or detained in satisfaction of confiscation order E+W

33.24.—(1) An order under section 67 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002(1) requiring the payment of money to a magistrates’ court officer (‘a payment order’) shall—

(a) be directed to—

(i) the bank or building society concerned, where the money is held in an account maintained with that bank or building society, or

(ii) the person on whose authority the money is detained, in any other case;

(b) name the person against whom the confiscation order has been made;

(c) state the amount which remains to be paid under the confiscation order;

(d) state the name and address of the branch at which the account in which the money ordered to be paid is held and the sort code of that branch, if the sort code is known;

(e) state the name in which the account in which the money ordered to be paid is held and the account number of that account, if the account number is known;

(f) state the amount which the bank or building society is required to pay to the court officer under the payment order;

(g) give the name and address of the court officer to whom payment is to be made; and

(h) require the bank or building society to make payment within a period of 7 days beginning on the day on which the payment order is made, unless it appears to the court that a longer or shorter period would be appropriate in the particular circumstances.

(2) In this rule ‘confiscation order’ has the meaning given to it by section 88(6) of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002.

Commencement Information

I1 Rule 33.24 in force at 5.10.2020, see Preamble

(1)

2002 c. 29; section 67 was amended by section 109 of, and paragraph 409 of Schedule 8 to, the Courts Act 2003 (c. 39), section 74 of, and paragraph 33 of Schedule 8 to, the Serious Crime Act 2007 (c. 27), section 14 of the Serious Crime Act 2015 (c. 9) and section 26 of the Criminal Finances Act 2017 (c. 22).