Money Laundering and Proceeds of Crime Act
Act No. 4/2013
(b) a production order in respect of the document would be unlikely to be effective; or
(c) the investigation for the purposes of which the search warrant is being sought might be
seriously prejudiced if the person authorised does not gain immediate access to the
document without any notice to any person; or
(d) the document involved cannot be identified or described with sufficient particularity to
enable a production order to be obtained.
(6) A search warrant for a property tracking document shall specify—
(a) the purpose for which the warrant is issued, including the nature of the relevant
offence; and
(b) the kind of property authorised to be seized; and
(c) the date on which the warrant shall cease to have effect; and
(d) the time during which entry upon any land or premises is authorised.
95 Further provisions relating to search warrants for property tracking
documents
(1) A search warrant granted under section 95 (“section 95 warrant”) does not confer the
right to seize any items subject to legal privilege.
(2) Property tracking documents seized by virtue of a section 95 warrant may be retained
for as long as is reasonably necessary for the purposes of this Act:
Provided that copies of the documents are made available to the person from whom they
were seized within ten working days of the seizure if requested.
(3) A section 95 warrant authorises the person executing it to require any information
which is held in a computer to be produced in a form in which it can be taken away, and in
which it is visible and legible.
(4) If during the course of searching under a section 95 warrant, the officer named in the
warrant finds a property tracking document or any thing or property that he or she believes on
reasonable grounds—
(a) is of a kind which could have been included in the warrant had its existence, or its
existence in that place, been known of at the time of application for the warrant; or
(b) is of a kind which could have been included in the warrant had its existence or its
existence in that place, been known at the time of the application for the warrant; or
(c) will afford evidence as to the commission of an offence
he or she may seize that property tracking document, thing or property, and the warrant shall be
deemed to authorise such seizure.
CHAPTER VI
RECOVERED ASSETS FUND
96 Establishment of Recovered Assets Fund
(1) There is hereby established in the accounts of Zimbabwe an account to be known as the
Recovered Assets Fund
(2) The Minister of Finance shall prescribe instructions for the administration of the
Recovered Assets Funds and the implementation of any other the provisions of this Chapter.
97 Receipts and disbursements of Recovered Assets Fund
(1) There shall be credited to the Recovered Assets Fund—
(a) all moneys derived from the fulfilment of confiscation, benefit recovery, and civil
forfeiture orders and from settlements of confiscation, recovery and forfeiture claims;
and
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