New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CONFISCATION OF PROCEEDS OF CRIME ACT 1989 - SECT 17

17 Procedure on applications

(1) If an application is made to a court for a confiscation order in respect of a person's conviction of a serious offence, the court may, in determining the application, have regard to the transcript of any proceedings against the person for the serious offence.

(2) If--

(a) a person is to be taken to have been convicted of a serious offence because of section 5 (1) (c), and

(b) an application is made to a court for a confiscation order in respect of the conviction,

the reference in subsection (1) to proceedings against the person for the serious offence includes a reference to proceedings against the person for the other offence referred to in section 5 (1) (c).