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No. 44 of 2025

Proceeds of Crime and Related Matters Bill 2025

Public bill · Government · Presented

The bill would make it easier and faster for the Criminal Assets Bureau to freeze, hold and ultimately take criminal assets, including money in bank accounts and crypto-assets. It cuts the waiting time before property can be permanently taken from seven years to two, lets a receiver be appointed sooner so criminals cannot keep benefiting from assets while a case is ongoing, and adds stronger powers to stop suspicious payments from being moved. It also updates related laws so the rules better match modern financial crime.

Formal long title

Bill entitled an Act to provide for the continued detention of property for the purposes of an investigation by the Criminal Assets Bureau in certain circumstances; to provide for the giving of payment freezing directions by a bureau officer, and the making of payment freezing orders by the District Court, in respect of funds in accounts in certain circumstances; to reduce the period of time an interlocutory order is required to be in place before a disposal order can be made in respect of certain property; to provide for the appointment of a receiver to deprive a person of the ongoing benefit and use of property in certain circumstances and for those and other purposes to amend the Proceeds of Crime Act 1996; to amend the National Archives Act 1986; to amend the Criminal Justice Act 1994; to amend the Criminal Assets Bureau Act 1996; to amend the Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) Act 2005; to amend the Criminal Justice (Corruption Offences) Act 2018; and to provide for related matters.

Last updated 17 April 2026

Sponsor
  • Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration Primary
Progress
  • First Stage
    Dáil
  • Second Stage
    Dáil
  • Committee Stage
    Dáil
  • Report Stage
    Dáil
  • Fifth Stage
    Dáil
  • Second Stage
    Seanad

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