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(3) The receipt of any sum by the Registrar on account of an amount payable under a confiscation order shall reduce the amount so payable, but the Registrar shall apply the sum received for the purposes specified in this section and in the order so specified.
(4) The Registrar shall first pay any expenses incurred by a person acting as an insolvency officer and payable under section 18(2) but not already paid under sub- section (1).
(5) If the sum was paid to the Registrar by a receiver appointed under section 10 or 12 or in pursuance of a charging order the Registrar shall next pay the receiver's remuneration and expenses.
(6) After making-
(a) any payment required by subsection (4); and
(b) in a case to which subsection (5) applies, any payment required by that
subsection,
the Registrar shall reimburse any amount paid under section 19(2).
(7) Any balance in the hands of the Registrar after he has made all payments required by the foregoing subsections shall be disposed of under section 93 of the Interpretation and General Clauses Ordinance (Cap. 1) as if it were a fine imposed under the authority of an Ordinance.
Exercise of powers by High Court or receiver
14. (1) The following subsections apply to the powers conferred on the High Court by sections 10 to 13, or on a receiver appointed under section 10 or 12 or in pursuance of a charging order.
(2) Subject to subsections (3), (4), (5) and (6), the powers shall be exercised with a view to making available for satisfying the confiscation order or, as the case may be, any confiscation order that may be made in the defendant's case the value for the time being of realisable property held by any person by the realisation of such property.
(3) In the case of realisable property held by a person to whom the defendant has directly or indirectly made a gift caught by this Ordinance, the powers shall be exercised with a view to realising no more than the value for the time being of the gift.
(4) The powers shall be exercised with a view to allowing any person other than the defendant or the recipient of any such gift to retain or recover the value of any property held by him.
(5) An order may be made or other action taken in respect of a debt owed by the Government.
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(6) In exercising those powers, no account shall be taken of any obligations of the defendant or of the recipient of any such gift which conflict with the obligation to satisfy the confiscation order.
Variation of confiscation orders
15. (1) If, on an application by the defendant in respect of a confiscation order, the High Court is satisfied that the realisable property is inadequate for the payment of any amount remaining to be recovered under the confiscation order, the High Court shall make an order-