This section applies if a chief clerk receives sums on account of the amount payable under a confiscation order (whether the sums are received under section 202 or otherwise).
The chief clerk's receipt of the sums reduces the amount payable under the order, but he must apply the sums received as follows.
First he must apply them in payment of such expenses incurred by a person acting as an insolvency practitioner as—
If the chief clerk received the sums under section 202 or 215D he must next apply them—
If a direction was made under section 163(6) for an amount of compensation to be paid out of sums recovered under the confiscation order, the chief clerk must next apply the sums in payment of that amount.
If any amount remains after the chief clerk makes any payments required by the preceding provisions of this section, the amount must be treated for the purposes of section 20 of the Administration of Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 (c. 9 (N.I.)) (application of fines) as if it were a fine.
Subsection (4) does not apply in relation to the remuneration of a receiver if the receiver is a person falling within subsection (8).
The following fall within this subsection—
It is immaterial for the purposes of subsection (7) whether a person falls within subsection (8) by virtue of a permanent or temporary appointment or a secondment from elsewhere.
The reference in subsection (8) to an accredited financial investigator is a reference to an accredited financial investigator who falls within a description specified in an order made for the purposes of that subsection by the Secretary of State under section 453.