16 Orders for securing compliance with confiscation order

16  Orders for securing compliance with confiscation order

After section 97A of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (inserted by section 15(2) above) insert—

“97B Orders for securing compliance with confiscation order

(1)     This section applies where the court makes a confiscation order.

(2)     The court may make such order in relation to the accused as it believes is appropriate for the purpose of ensuring that the confiscation order is effective (a “compliance order”).

(3)     The court must consider whether to make a compliance order—

(a)     on the making of the confiscation order, and

(b)     if it does not make a compliance order then, at any later time (while the confiscation order is still in effect) on the application of the prosecutor.

(4)     In considering whether to make a compliance order, the court must, in particular,

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