"the Act" means the Proceeds of Crime (Scotland) Act 1995;

"the 1990 Act" means the Criminal Justice (International Co-operation) Act 1990;

"appropriate authority of a designated country" means-

(a) the authority specified opposite that country in Part I or, as the case may be, Part II of Schedule 1 to this Order;

(b) where no authority is so specified, the authority appearing to the court to be the appropriate authority for the purposes of section 9 of the 1990 Act and of the relevant provisions of the Act as applied by article 4 of this Order;

"a court of a designated country" includes a court of any state or territory of a designated country;

"designated country" means a country or territory designated under article 3 of this Order;

"drug trafficking offence" has the same meaning as in section 49(5) of the Act as applied by article 4 of this Order;

"external forfeiture order" means an order, including any decree, direction or judgment, or any part thereof, however described, made by a court in a designated country for the forfeiture and destruction or the forfeiture and other disposal of anything in respect of which an offence to which this Order applies has been committed or which was used or intended for use in connection with the commission of such an offence;

"offence to which this Order applies" means a drug trafficking offence or any offence corresponding to or similar to an offence to which Part I of the Act applies or an offence in respect of which a suspended forfeiture order may be made under section 21 of the Act;

"property" has the same meaning as in section 49(1) of the Act.

    (2) Proceedings are instituted in a designated country when-

(a) under the law of the designated country concerned one of the steps specified in relation to that country in the right-hand column of Schedule 2 to this Order has been taken there in respect of an alleged offence to which this Order applies; or

(b) where no steps have been specified in relation thereto as mentioned in paragraph (a) above, the accused has been notified in writing in accordance with the laws of the designated country that the appropriate authorities of that country have begun proceedings against him in respect of an offence; or

(c) an application has been made to a court in a designated country for an external forfeiture order,

and where the application of this paragraph would result in there being more than one time for the institution of proceedings, they shall be taken to have been instituted at the earliest of those times.

    (3) Proceedings are concluded-

(a) when (disregarding any power of a court to grant leave to appeal out of time) there is no further possibility of a forfeiture order being made in the proceedings;

(b) on the satisfaction of a forfeiture order made in the proceedings (whether by the recovery of all property liable to be recovered or otherwise).