Criminal Justice (Proceeds of Crime) (Bailiwick of Guernsey) (Amendment) (No. 5) Ordinance, 2023

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The Criminal Justice (Proceeds of Crime) (Bailiwick of Guernsey) (Amendment) (No. 5) Ordinance, 2023

THE STATES, in pursuance of their Resolutions of the 28^th September, 2023[a] and in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 53A and 54 of the Criminal Justice (Proceeds of Crime) (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 1999[b], and all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby order:-

Amendment of the Proceeds of Crime Law.

1. (1) The Criminal Justice (Proceeds of Crime) (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 1999 is amended as follows.

(2) In section 49AA, after subsection 4, insert -

"(4A) For the avoidance of doubt, and without prejudice to the generality of subsection (4), the purposes of forestalling and preventing -

(a) terrorist financing,

(b) the financing of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and

(c) any other activity which would comprise a breach of an international sanctions measure that has been implemented in the Bailiwick,

are included within the meaning of "related purposes" in that subsection.".

(3) In section 54, the following are deleted -

(a) in subsection (1)(c), the words "(other than regulations made under section 49AA(4))", and

(b) subsection (1A).

Extent.

2. This Ordinance has effect throughout the Bailiwick of Guernsey.

Citation.

3. This Ordinance may be cited as the Criminal Justice (Proceeds of Crime) (Bailiwick of Guernsey) (Amendment) (No. 5) Ordinance, 2023.

Commencement.

4. This Ordinance shall come into force on the day on which it is made.

[a]	Article VI of Billet d'État No. XIV of 2023.
[b]	Ordres en Conseil Vol. XXXIX, p. 137; this enactment has been amended.