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Variation or discharge of external confiscation orders from member states
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17. The Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following section after section 51D:
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“51E. (1) A person who claims to be affected by an external confiscation order that has been transmitted by or on behalf of a court in a designated state that is a member state to the Central Authority and then transmitted to the Director of Public Prosecutions under section 51A for execution in the State may make an application to the High Court to vary or discharge that external confiscation order.
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(2) The High Court shall consider an application made under subsection (1) and may vary or discharge the external confiscation order concerned only if it is informed by the competent authority in the designated state where the external confiscation order concerned was made that it has reviewed the substantive grounds for the order and has concluded that the external confiscation order concerned should be varied or discharged.
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(3) Notice of an application under this section and of the grounds for it shall be given by the applicant, in such manner as may be prescribed by rules of court or as the High Court may direct, to the Central Authority for transmission to the designated state concerned.
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(4) The making of an application under subsection (1) shall not suspend the execution of the external confiscation order concerned.”.
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