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Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 12 February 2005 - onwards

3. Amendment of section 1 (interpretation) of Principal Act.

Section 1 of the Principal Act is hereby amended -

(a) in subsection (1) -

(i) by the substitution of the following definitions for those of "the applicant", "proceeds of crime", "property" and "the respondent":

"'the applicant' means a person, being a member, an authorised officer or the Criminal Assets Bureau, who has applied to the Court for the making of an interim order or an interlocutory order and, in relation to such an order that is in force, means, as appropriate, any member, any authorised officer or the Criminal Assets Bureau;

'proceeds of crime' means any property obtained or received at any time (whether before or after the passing of this Act) by or as a result of or in connection with criminal conduct;

'property', in relation to proceeds of crime, includes -

(a) money and all other property, real or personal, heritable or moveable,

(b) choses in action and other intangible or incorporeal property, and

(c) property situated outside the State where -

(i) the respondent is domiciled, resident or present in the State, and

(ii) all or any part of the criminal conduct concerned occurs therein,

and references to property shall be construed as including references to any interest in property;