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Drugs and Drug Trafficking Act, 1992 (Act No. 40 of 1992)

Chapter VI : Mutual Assistance in respect of Drug Trafficking

Foreign confiscation orders

57. Effect of registration, and execution of foreign confiscation orders

 

(1) Whenever any foreign confiscation order has been registered in terms of section 56, that foreign confiscation order shall have the effect of a civil judgment of the lower court at which it has been registered.

 

(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1), no foreign confiscation order registered in terms of section 56 shall be executed—
(a) before the expiry of the period contemplated in section 56(2)(b); or
(b) if an application for the setting aside of the registration of the foreign confiscation order has been made within that period, until a final decision has been rendered in respect of any such application.