Freezing Orders (Execution in the European Union)

L.N. 467 of 2010

CRIMINAL CODE

(CAP. 9)

Freezing Orders (Execution in the European Union)

(Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations, 2010

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 628A of the

Criminal Code, the Minister for Justice and Home Affairs has made

the following regulations:-

The title of these regulations is the Freezing Orders

(Execution in the European Union) (Amendment) (No.2)

Regulations, 2010, and these regulations shall be read and construed

as one with the Freezing Orders (Execution in the European Union)

Regulations, hereinafter referred to as "the principal regulations".

In regulation 4 of the principal regulations, for the words

"the Criminal Court" wherever they occur there shall be substituted

the words "a court of criminal jurisdiction".

For sub-regulation (1) of regulation 12 of the principal

regulations, there shall be substituted the following

"(1) Where a person is charged with a relevant offence,

the Attorney General or the prosecution may apply to a court of

criminal jurisdiction for a freezing order.".

In regulation 13 of the principal regulations for the words

"the Criminal Court" there shall be substituted the words "a court of

criminal jurisdiction".

Schedule 3 to the principal regulations shall be amended as

follows

(a) immediately after the word "Poland" there shall be

inserted the word "Portugal"; and

(b) immediately after the words "United Kingdom", the

words "- with regards to freezing orders provisionally attaching

evidence" shall be deleted.

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