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Increase in value of realisable property.
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18.—(1) This section shall have effect where the amount which a person is ordered to pay by a confiscation order is less than the amount assessed to be the value of his proceeds of drug trafficking or, as the case may be, the value of the benefit he has obtained from an offence other than a drug trafficking offence.
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(2) If, on an application made by the Director of Public Prosecutions, the High Court is satisfied that the amount (“the first amount”) that might be realised in the case of the person in question is greater than the amount taken into account in making the confiscation order (whether it was greater than was thought when the order was made or has subsequently increased), the court may substitute for the first amount such amount (not exceeding the amount assessed as the value referred to in subsection (1) of this section) as appears to the court to be appropriate having regard to the amount now shown to be realisable.
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