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                                (9) No information given under this section which amounts
                           to an admission by the defendant that the defendant has benefited
                           from criminal conduct is admissible in evidence in proceedings
                           for an offence.



                                                    Reconsideration

                           79. (1) This section applies if —                                    No confiscation
                                                                                                order made:
                                                                                                reconsideration
                                  (a) the first condition in section 66 is satisfied but no court of case
                                      has proceeded under that section;
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                                  (b) there is evidence which was not available to the
                                      prosecutor on the relevant date;


                                  (c) before the end of the period of 6 years starting with the
                                      date of conviction the prosecutor applies to the Court
                                      of General Gaol Delivery to consider the evidence; and

                                  (d) after considering the evidence the court believes it is
                                      appropriate for it to proceed under section 66.

                                (2) If this section applies the court must proceed under
                           section 66, and when it does so subsections (3) to (8) apply.

                                (3) If the court has already sentenced the defendant for the
                           offence (or any of the offences) concerned, section 66 has effect
                           as if the defendant’s particular criminal conduct included conduct
                           which constitutes offences which the court has taken into
                           consideration in deciding the defendant’s sentence for the offence
                           or offences concerned.

                                (4) Section 68(2) does not apply, and the rules applying
                           instead are that the court must —

                                  (a) take account of conduct occurring before the relevant
                                      date;

                                  (b) take account of property obtained before that date;


                                  (c) take account of property obtained on or after that date
                                      if it was obtained as a result of or in connection with
                                      conduct occurring before that date.

                                (5) In section 70 —

                                  (a) the first and second assumptions do not apply with
                                      regard to property first held by the defendant on or after
                                      the relevant date;
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