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23. Inadequacy of available amount: variation of order

(1) This section applies if -

(a) a court has made a confiscation order, and

(b) the defendant or the prosecutor, or a receiver appointed under section 50, applies to the Crown Court to vary the order under this section.

(2) In such a case the court must calculate the available amount, and in doing so it must apply section 9 as if references to the time the confiscation order is made were to the time of the calculation and as if references to the date of the confiscation order were to the date of the calculation.

(3) If the court finds that the available amount (as so calculated) is inadequate for the payment of any amount remaining to be paid under the confiscation order it may vary the order by substituting for the amount required to be paid such smaller amount as the court believes is just.

(4) If a person has been made bankrupt or his estate has been sequestrated, or if an order for the winding up of a company has been made, the court must take into account the extent to which real

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