(b)

(c)

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a request has been sent by the Attorney General to

the appropriate authority of a designated country for

assistance in enforcing that order; and

in execution of that request property is recovered in

that country,

the amount payable under the confiscation order shall be treated as

reduced by the value of property so recovered.

(2) For the purposes of this paragraph, and without prejudice

to the admissibility of any evidence which may be admissible apart

from this subparagraph, a certificate purporting to be issued by or

on behalf of the appropriate authority of a designated country

stating that property has been recovered there in execution of a

request by the Attorney General, stating the value of the property

so recovered and the date on which it was recovered shall,

in any

proceedings in a court in Hong Kong, be admissible as evidence of

the facts so stated.

8.

Currency conversion

(1) Where the value of property recovered as described in

paragraph 7(1) is expressed in a currency other than that of Hong

Kong, the extent to which the amount payable under the confiscation

order is to be reduced under that paragraph shall be calculated on

the basis of the exchange rate prevailing on the date on which the

property was recovered in the designated country concerned.

(2) Where an amount of money payable or remaining to be paid

under an external confiscation order registered in the High Court

under section 29 of the Ordinance is expressed in a currency other

than that of Hong Kong, for the purpose of any action taken in

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