PROCEEDS OF CRIME ACT 1987 - SECT 25 Special provisions in relation to serious offences
PROCEEDS OF CRIME ACT 1987 - SECT 25
Special provisions in relation to serious offences(1) Where an application is made to a court for a pecuniary penalty order against a person in reliance on the person's conviction of a serious offence, the court shall not make a pecuniary penalty order in reliance on the conviction until after the end of the period of 6 months commencing on the day of the conviction.
(2) Subsection ( 1) does not apply to an application for
a pecuniary penalty order against a person who is to be taken to have been
convicted of the serious offence by reason of paragraph 5(1)(d).