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Version date: 18 June 2009 - onwards
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75. Use of production orders for detained cash investigations

(1) After section 341(3) of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (types of investigation to which Part 8 applies) insert -

"(3A) For the purposes of this Part a detained cash investigation is -

(a) an investigation for the purposes of Chapter 3 of Part 5 into the derivation of cash detained under section 295 or a part of such cash, or

(b) an investigation for the purposes of Chapter 3 of Part 5 into whether cash detained under section 295, or a part of such cash, is intended by any person to be used in unlawful conduct."

(2) In section 345(2) of that Act (investigations in respect of which production orders may be made), in paragraph (b), after "a civil recovery investigation" insert "or a detained cash investigation".

(3) In section 346(2) of that Act (reasonable suspicion requirement for making a production order), after paragraph (b), insert -

"(ba) in the case of a detained cash investigation into the derivation of cash, the property the application for the order specifies as being subject to the investigation, or a part of it, is recoverable property;