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Home Office

Answer

Mr. Hancock: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what timescale he has for introducing the (a) primary and (b) secondary legislation that is required in order for the UK to be able to ratify the UN Convention Against Corruption. [190483] Caroline Flint: The Government will seek to bring forward the required legislation at the earliest suitable opportunity. In addition to primary legislation to comply with Article 55 on the forfeiture of the instrumentalities of crime, secondary legislation will be required to comply with Article 52, on the prevention and detection of transfers of the proceeds of crime, and Article 53 of the Convention, on the confiscation and repatriation of assets. Measures dealing with the requirements of Article 52 are likely to be included in the EU Third Money Laundering Directive. Our current expectation is that negotiations on the Directive will be completed by the first part of next year and we would seek to implement it in the UK through secondary legislation as soon as we reasonably could thereafter. Measures dealing with the requirements of Article 53 will be brought forward under Part 11 of the Proceeds of Crime (POCA) Act 2002.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

425 c414-5W; 190483

Session

2003-04

Subjects

EU action Proceeds of crime Money laundering Implementing legislation UN Convention against Corruption

Link

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