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Version date: 23 September 2019 - onwards
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8F. Confiscation orders relating to relevant offences.

(1) Where a person has been sentenced or otherwise dealt with by a court in respect of a relevant offence of which that person has been convicted on indictment -

(a) if such offence is a drug trafficking offence, the court shall, subject to subsections (2) and (3), determine whether the convicted person has benefited from -

(i) that offence, and

(ii) conduct constituting that offence, or

(b) if such offence is not a drug trafficking offence, the Director of Public Prosecutions may, subject to subsection (5), make, or cause to be made, an application to the court to determine whether the convicted person has benefited -

(i) from that offence, or

(ii) where that offence is an extended confiscation offence, from relevant conduct.

(2) A court may decide not to make a determination under section (1)(a) where, following such preliminary inquiries, if any, as it may make, it is satisfied that having regard to -

(a) the present means of the convicted person, and