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explained that confiscation orders would be more effective because the assets of the drug trafficker would be exhaustively traced and that they constitute a more just system than the automatic indebtedness scheme.

ADVICE SOUGHT

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Members will be asked to advise whether the proposals in paragraphs 6 to 17 regarding automatic indebtedness or the proposals in paragraphs 22 to 31 regarding the imposition of confiscation orders should be adopted in principle and legislation drafted for Members' consideration.

(The Director of Public Prosecutions, Mr J.K. FINDLAY, the Secretary for Security,

for Security, Mr D.G. JEAFFRESON, and the Commissioner for Narcotics, Mrs Agnes ALLCOCK, will attend before the Council for the discussion of this item.)

31 October 1986

(NCR 3/1/8 VII)

COUNCIL CHAMBER

CONFIDENTIAL