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16. Variation of confiscation orders.

(1) If, on an application by the defendant or by the Director of Public Prosecutions in respect of a confiscation order, the High Court is satisfied that the value of the realisable property is inadequate for the payment of any amount remaining to be recovered under the order, the court shall substitute for the amount to be recovered under the order such lesser amount as the court thinks just in all the circumstances of the case.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1) of this section -

(a) in the case of realisable property held by a person who has been adjudged bankrupt the court shall take into account the extent to which any property held by him may be distributed among creditors, and

(b) the court may disregard any inadequacy in the value of the realisable property which appears to the court to be attributable wholly or partly to anything done by the defendant for the purpose of preserving any property held by a person to whom the defendant had directly or indirectly made a gift ca

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