Section 18: Service of application
consolidated text (as at 2018, amended since). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
18. Service of application
(1) Where the Enforcement Authority makes an application for a Confiscation Order—
(a) it shall serve a copy of the application and of the statement
referred to in section 17 (1) (b) on the defendant and on such other person as the Court may direct; and
(b) every person who has been served may appear and adduce evidence at the hearing of the application.
(2) The absence of the defendant, or of any other person on whom service has been effected, shall not prevent the Court from making a Confiscation Order in his absence.
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(3) The Court may waive the requirements of service under subsection (1)
on the defendant where he is already before the Court.