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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).