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Receivers: supplementary provisions

19. (1) Where a receiver appointed under section 10 or 12 or in

pursuance of a charging order takes any action

(a) in relation to property which is not realisable property,

being action which he would be entitled to take if it were

such property;

(b)

believing, and having reasonable grounds for believing,

that he is entitled to take that action in relation to that

property,

he shall not be liable to any person in respect of any loss or damage

resulting from his action except in so far as the loss or damage is

caused by his negligence.

(2) Any amount due in respect of the remuneration and expenses

of a receiver so appointed shall, if no sum is available to be

applied in payment of it under section 13(3)(a), be paid by the

prosecutor or, in a case where proceedings for a drug trafficking

offence are not instituted, by the person on whose application the

receiver was appointed.