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LAW 793 OF 2002
(December 27)
Official Journal No 45.046 of 27 December 2002
18, repealed as of July 20, 2014, by article 218 of Law 1708 of 2014 >
By which the 1996 333 Act is repealed and rules governing the extinction of the domain are established.
COLOMBIA CONGRESS
DECRETA:
OF DOMAIN EXTINCTION.
ARTICLE 1o. CONCEPT. 18, repealed with effect from July 20, 2014, by article 218 of Law 1708 of 2014 > The extinction of dominion is the loss of this right in favor of the State, without against the provision or compensation of any kind for its holder. This action is autonomous in the terms of this law.
ARTICLE 2o. CAUSALES. 18, repealed with effect from July 20, 2014, by article 218 of Law 1708 of 2014 > 72 of Law 1453 of 2011. The new text is as follows: > The domain will be declared extinct by judicial judgment, when any of the following cases occur:
1. Where there is an unjustified increase in assets, at any time, without explaining the lawful origin of the property.
2. Where the goods or goods concerned come directly or indirectly from an illicit activity.
3. Where the goods in question have been used as a means or instrument for the commission of illicit activities, they are intended for such purposes or correspond to the object of the offence.
4. Where the goods or resources concerned come from the disposal or permuse of other goods which originate, directly or indirectly, in illicit activities, or which have been destined for illicit activities or are the product, effect, instrument or object of the illicit.
5. Where the goods in question have legal origin, but have been mixed, integrated or confused with resources of illicit origin. Except for securities deposited in the Deposits of Securities, as long as the holders of such securities successfully comply with the rules on the prevention of the laundering of assets and the financing of terrorism are required.
PARAGRAFO 1o. The affected must test through the appropriate means, the fundamentals of their opposition, and the lawful origin of the goods.
PARAGRAFO 2o. The illicit activities referred to in this article are:
1. The crime of illicit enrichment.
2. The conduct committed, to the detriment of the Public Treasury and corresponding to the crimes of peculate, illegal interest in the conclusion of contracts, contracts concluded without legal requirements, illegal issuance of currency or effects or values (a) the currency is equivalent to the currency; the illegal exercise of monopolistic activities or the use of a profit or loss; theft on the effects and on the goods destined for national security and defence; crimes against the assets that fall on the State's property; the use of matters under secret or reserved information.
3. Those that imply a serious deterioration of social morality. For the purposes of this rule, it is understood that they are activities that cause deterioration to social morality, those that threaten public health, economic and social order, natural resources and the environment, public security, public administration, the constitutional and legal regime, kidnapping, extortion, extortion, pimping, human trafficking, and the trafficking of immigrants.
ARTICLE 3o. OF THE BIESAs. 18, repealed with effect from July 20, 2014, by article 218 of Law 1708 of 2014 > For the purposes of this law, goods subject to extinction of the domain, all those that are susceptible to economic valuation, furniture or real estate, tangible or intangible, or those on which the right to property may be placed. Equally, all fruits and yields of the same shall be understood.
73 of Law 1453 of 2011. The new text is as follows: > When it will not be possible to locate or extinguish the domain of the goods determined on which the extinction of the domain will be seen, because these have been alienated, destroyed, hidden or permuted, the Prosecutor shall identify lawful property of ownership of the share and submit them to the Judge, to declare the domain extinct, on equivalent goods and securities. The foregoing shall not be construed as prejudice to any third party in good faith who is not guilty.
OF THE DOMAIN EXTINCTION ACTION.
ARTICLE 4. OF THE NATURE OF THE ACTION. 18, repealed as of July 20, 2014, by article 218 of Law 1708 of 2014 > The domain extinction action of the present law is of a jurisdictional nature, of a real nature and of patrimonial content, and shall proceed on any real, principal or ancillary right, regardless of who holds them, or has acquired them, and on the goods committed. This action is distinct and independent of any other criminal nature that has been initiated simultaneously, or that has been detached, or where it originated, without prejudice to good faith third parties.
The extinction of the right of domain with respect to the property object of succession by cause of death, when such goods correspond to any of the events foreseen in the article 2or.
ARTICLE 5o. OF THE ACTION INITIATION. 18, repealed as of July 20, 2014, by article 218 of Law 1708 2014 > 74 of Law 1453 of 2011. The new text is as follows: > The action must be initiated by the Office of the Prosecutor General of the Nation or at the request of any person, when it is considered that there is a probability that some of the causals foreseen in the Article 2or of this law. The action of extinction of the domain shall also be initiated where the goods or resources concerned have been affected within a criminal procedure, and the origin of such goods, their use or illicit destination have not been the subject of investigation. or having been taken over them, for whatever cause, a final decision.
The Attorney General's Office, the Comptroller General's Office, the National Drug Administration, the National Narcotics Directorate, any public institution, or any natural or legal person, must inform the Prosecutor General's Office of the Nation, on the existence of goods that may be the object of the action of extinction of dominion. Failure to comply with this duty by a public servant shall constitute a disciplinary offence. The international organizations, authorized for the effect by a treaty or agreement of reciprocal collaboration with the Government of Colombia, will be able to make news of this, for the beginning of the action of extinction of dominion.
PARAGRAFO 1o. The National Narcotics Directorate from the initial phase will be able to intervene as part of the domain extinction process. It shall be empowered to provide and apply for the practice of evidence aimed at demonstrating the existence of any of the grounds provided for in Article 2or of this law, the identification of the goods or the equivalent goods, to request precautionary measures on these, to contest the decisions, to be proposed in the process of extinction of dominion, as well as to challenge the providence that does not recognize the abandonment of the goods in favor of the State, when to it 'place'
PARAGRAFO 2o. At any point in the process in which it appears fully checked that any of the invoked causes are not structured, or that the description of the asset was misdescribed, or that the action cannot be The court operator, who will warn him, will make an extraordinary decision on whether the action will be taken. This decision must be consulted.
ARTICLE 6o. REMUNERATION. 18, repealed as of July 20, 2014, by article 218 of Law 1708 of 2014 > 75 of Law 1453 of 2011. The new text is as follows: > The particular person who reports effectively, or who effectively contributes to obtaining evidence for the declaration of extinction of the domain, or the contribution, will receive a remuneration of up to 5% of the product the State obtains for the liquidation and sale of such goods, or of the commercial value thereof when the State has retained them for any of its organs or dependencies. This assessment shall be made by the judge in the judgment, on its own initiative, or at the request of the prosecutor, taking into account the effectiveness of such cooperation.
The complaint for which remuneration is intended shall be processed in a separate notebook from the main action and subject to reservation. Likewise, the administrative act through which the National Narcotics Directorate will pay for the remuneration ordered by the judge will be reserved.
ARTICLE 7o. APPLICABLE RULES. 18, repealed as of July 20, 2014, by article 218 of Law 1708 of 2014 > 76 of Law 1453 of 2011. The new text is as follows: > The action of extinction will be subject exclusively to the provisions of this law and, only to fill its voids, will apply the rules of the Code of Civil Procedure, in its order. In no case may it be possible to claim any prejudiciality to prevent the prosecution from being proposed or to require the accumulation of processes.
DUE PROCESS AND WARRANTIES.
ARTICLE 8o. OF THE PROCESS. 18, repealed with effect from July 20, 2014, by article 218 of Law 1708 of 2014 > In the exercise and processing of the extinction of domain action ensure due process which is its own, allowing the affected to present evidence and to intervene in their practice, to oppose the claims being enforced in against the goods, and to exercise the right of contradiction as the Political Constitution conconseca.
ARTICLE 9o. OF THE PROTECTION OF DERACTS. 18, repealed with effect from July 20, 2014, by article 218 of Law 1708 of 2014 > During the procedure the will be guaranteed and protected rights of those concerned, and in particular the following:
1. Prove the legitimate origin of your estate, and of goods whose ownership is discussed.
2. Prove that the goods in question are not found in the causals that support the domain extinction action.
3. Prove that, in respect of their patrimony, or of the goods that specifically constitute the object of the action, a favorable sentence has been produced that must be recognized as a thing judged within a process of Extinction of Domain, by identity with respect to the subjects, the object and the cause of the process.
ARTICLE 9-A. FROM THE MEDIA OF TEST. 18, repealed with effect from July 20, 2014, by article 218 of Law 1708 of 2014 > 77 of Law 1453 of 2011. The new text is as follows: > Test means are inspection, assessment, document, testimony, confession and indicia.
The prosecutor may decree the practice of other means of proof not contained in this law, in accordance with the provisions that regulate it, always respecting fundamental rights.
It will be possible to use the mechanical, electronic and technical means that science offers and that do not attack human dignity.
The tests validly performed in a judicial or administrative action inside or outside the country, may be transferred and will be appreciated in accordance with the rules of sound criticism and with observance of the principles of publicity and (i) a contradiction.
ARTICLE 10. FROM THE APPEARANCE TO THE PROCESS. 78 of Law 1453 of 2011 >
ARTICLE 10-A. OF THE ABBREVIATED PROCEDURE. 18, repealed as of July 20, 2014, by article 218 of Law 1708 of 2014 > 75 of Law 1395 of 2010. The new text is as follows: > In case of seizure of money or securities such as precious metals, jewelry or other similar ones that do not have an identified or identifiable owner, holder or holder, once the site has been dispensed, and provided that no person who demonstrates legitimate interest appears, the judicial operator of knowledge shall, within ten days of the following, decide the provenance of the action of extinction of the domain, and shall forward it to the competent judge to proceed with the the corresponding procedure for the declaration of extinction of the domain in favour of the Fund for the Rehabilitation, Social Investment and Fight Against Organized Crime, no later than 15 days after receipt of the respective resolution.
COMPETENCE AND PROCEDURE.
ARTICLE 11. OF THE COMPETITION. 18, repealed as of July 20, 2014, by article 218 of Law 1708 of 2014 > 79 of Law 1453 of 2011. The new text is as follows: > The action of the Attorney General of the Nation, directly, or through the fiscal delegates that make up the National Unit for the Extinction of the Law of Domain and Against the Laundering of Assets or in its The default is the tax delegated to the Criminal Judges of the Specialized Circuit. In accordance with its constitutional and legal powers, the Prosecutor will be able to form special units of extinction of dominion.
The second instance of the decisions proposed in the process of extinction of the domain, will be taken before the Unit of Fiscalas Delegate to the Court-Extinction of the Law of Domain and against the Laundering of Assets.
It will be up to the Criminal Judges of the Specialty Extinction Circuit of Bogota, to propose the judgment of the first instance to resolve the extinction of the domain, regardless of the location of the property. The second instance will be before the Extinction Chamber of the Superior Court of the Judicial District of Bogota.
ARTICLE 12. INITIAL PHASE. 18, repealed with effect from July 20, 2014, by article 218 of Law 1708 of 2014 > 80 of Law 1453 of 2011. The new text is as follows: > The initial phase will be advanced by the competent prosecutor. This phase will aim to identify the goods on which the action could be placed, to collect the means of evidence that evidence any of the causals provided for in Article 2or to break the presumption of good faith free of fault with respect to goods in the head of third parties. The initial phase will end with the resolution of initiation or inhibition, as the case may be.
At this stage or at any point in the process, the prosecutor may decree precautionary measures for the seizure, kidnapping, and suspension of the device of any kind of good, which includes foreign exchange, metals and precious stones, money in deposit in the financial system, securities securities and yields of the former, the same as the order not to pay them even without their abduction or apprehension, as well as the occupation and the seizure of goods.
In any case, the National Narcotics Directorate will be the henchman or depositary of the goods subject to precautionary measures.
The movable and immovable property on which precautionary measures will be adopted will immediately be made available to the National Narcotics Directorate, through the Fund for Rehabilitation, Social Investment and the Fight Against Organized Crime. -Frisco-who will be able to dispose of them, directly or through third parties, in accordance with the rules applicable to the sale of goods with extinction of dominion. As long as the disposal does not occur, the National Narcotics Directorate shall provide for its proper administration in accordance with the systems provided for in Law 785 of 2002 and its regulatory standards.
In accordance with the provisions of the previous paragraph, the Government will regulate the guarantees for cases where the extinction of the domain is not declared.
The National Narcotics Directorate may, by means of a reasoned decision, order the recall, suspension or termination, as the case may be, of the administrative acts of designation in temporary storage or any type of contract on the goods entered with third parties or between the provisional and third parties. Without prejudice to the obligation of immediate restitution in favour of the National Narcotics Directorate, in those cases where the provisional depositaries, tenants or any other type of contractors they are bringing forward economic activities in these goods, must be within four (4) months from the notification of the recall, suspension or termination, present to the National Narcotics Directorate, the settlement claim duly substantiated of the damages that may have been caused to it with the recall, suspension or termination to be referenced.
The National Narcotics Directorate will resolve the request for compensation through a reasoned administrative act. When the administrative act recognizes sums in favor of the petitioner, they will be paid by the National Narcotics Directorate.
The administrative act that resolves the application is susceptible to the resources of the governmental route and the administrative litigation actions in accordance with the general rules.
The National Narcotics Directorate will make a visit to the field of verification of the use of the goods and will lift a record in which the investments and economic operations that have been executed or are carried out in the respective good will be established.
The administrative and police authorities will provide all the support required by the National Narcotics Directorate for the administrative acts that will be proposed for the purposes of this law.
PARAGRAFO 1o. The Fund for Rehabilitation, Social Investment and Fight Against Organized Crime is a special account without legal status administered by the National Narcotics Directorate, according to the policies drawn up by the National Narcotics Council.
The goods, the product of their sale and administration, as well as the resources that are the object of extinction of dominion, will enter the Fund for Rehabilitation, Investment, Social and Fight Against Organized Crime and will be assigned by the National Council of Drugs, for the purpose of social investment, security and the fight against organized crime, rehabilitation of military and police wounded in combat, co-financing of the system of adolescent criminal responsibility, prison infrastructure, strengthening of the administration of justice and functioning of the Directorate National of Narcotic Drugs.
PARAGRAFO 2o. The National Narcotics Directorate, with the resources of the Fund for Rehabilitation, Social Investment and Fight Against Organized Crime, Frislco, and the Presidential Agency for Social Action and the International Cooperation-Social Action, under the resources of the Fund for the Repair of Victims, will be able to carry out the necessary expenses for the protection, administration, conservation and maintenance of the goods to their position.
PARAGRAFO 3o. The payment of the tax obligations related to the goods administered by the National Directorate of Narcotics and Social Action-Fund for the Repair of Victims, will be governed by the provisions of the Article 9or of Law 785 of 2002.
PARAGRAFO 4o. The disposal of the goods subject to registration shall be carried out by administrative act which, once registered in the office concerned, shall constitute a sufficient domain.
PARAGRAFO 5o. In connection with the San Andrés Archipelago, Providencia and Santa Catalina, articles 23 of Law 793 of 2002 and 70 of Law 915 of 2004.
ARTICLE 12-A. 18, repealed as of July 20, 2014, by article 218 of Law 1708 of 2014 > 81 of Law 1453 of 2011. The new text is as follows: > During the initial and investigation phase with the purpose of collecting evidence to substantiate the extinction process, the prosecutor may use the following research techniques:
a) Records and searches;
b) Interceptation of telephone and similar communications;
c) Recovery of information left when browsing the Internet or other technological means that produce equivalent effects; and surveillance of things.
When the practice of the previous research techniques is enacted, a resolution of substantiation must be provided that contains the reasons or grounds for its practice.
The control of guarantee and legality will be made before the judges of the extinction of the domain.
ARTICLE 12-B. 18, repealed as of July 20, 2014, by article 218 of Law 1708 of 2014 > 79 of Law 1395 of 2010. The new text is as follows: > If during the initial phase no goods are identified on which the action could be initiated or the existence of any of the causals provided for in the article 2or this law, the competent prosecutor will refrain from initiating the domain extinction procedure by means of a resolution against which the law resources come.
This decision may be revoked ex officio or at the request of a party even if it is executed, provided that new evidence appears that distorts the fundamentals that served as the basis for offering it.
ARTICLE 13. OF THE PROCEDURE. 18, repealed with effect from July 20, 2014, by article 218 of Law 1708 of 2014 > 82 of Law 1453 of 2011. The new text is as follows: > The processing of the domain extinction action will be completed in accordance with the following rules:
1. The prosecutor who is responsible for the processing of the process, will order to notify the resolution of the beginning of the action of extinction of dominion to the holders of the main real rights and accessories of the goods object of the same. Notification will be provided on a personal basis and on a per-notice basis, in accordance with Articles 315 and 320 of the Code of Procedure Civil. In the events provided for in Article 318 of the Code of Civil Procedure, the site shall be established there. The prosecutor directly or through any public official may assume the functions assigned to him to the authorized postal service companies, for the purposes of carrying out any notification procedure, in those places in the where these companies do not provide their services or when the conditions of any such process warrant it.
The notification of who is to be notified personally can be made at any of the following sites:
a) In the room place;
b) In the workplace;
c) At the location of the goods.
In the event that at the initial stage the prosecutor had made a personal notification pursuant to the materialization of a precautionary measure, or where the affected person had acted in the initial stage, it will be understood to be linked to the action and therefore the start resolution will be notified to you by state.
If it has not yet been done in the initial phase, the prosecutor will decree and practice the precautionary measures at any time, even before the notice of initiation has been notified to those affected. Against this decision, the law will proceed and, if the starting resolution is revoked, it will be submitted to the judicial level of consultation. No appeal shall suspend the enforcement or enforcement of the precautionary measure.
The main real rights holders and accessories will have a term of ten (10) days counted from the day following their notification, to present their opposition and to provide or ask for the evidence.
1. The starting resolution shall be reported to the agent of the Public Ministry by any means of communication.
2. In the commencement resolution, the indeterminate third parties shall be ordered to be employed in accordance with the provisions of Article 318 of the Code of Civil Procedure. Non-participating third parties will be designated as the ad litem curator under the terms set out in article 9or 318 of the Civil Procedure Code. Non-determined third parties who are to be notified personally within the term of the site will have ten (10) days to present their oppositions. The curator of the non-determined third parties shall have the term of ten (10) days from the day following that of their notification, staff to present oppositions and to provide or request evidence.
3. After the end of the preceding term, the prosecutor shall open the process to evidence by the end of thirty (30) days, where he shall order the incorporation of the evidence provided in the file and shall decree those which have been duly requested and which I of course consider. The resolution that denies evidence is liable for reorder.
4. After completion of the probative term, transfer will be carried out to claim of conclusion by the common term of five (5) days.
5. After the previous term, during the following thirty (30) days the prosecutor will dictate the resolution stating the origin or the origin of the domain extinction action, which will be governed by the following rules:
(a) The provenance shall be declared by appable resolution;
(b) Inprovenance in respect of bona fide third parties shall be declared by way of appeal. If it is not appealed, the judicial level of consultation must be provided;
(c) Other cases of improvenance shall be declared by means of an appeal. In the event that the origin is not appealed or if the appeal has confirmed the imprecence, the action must be sent to the competent judge for the final decision in the judgment, after the exhaustion of all the steps to be taken. In any event, the impenence shall not take effect until it is ratified in the judgment.
6. The prosecutor shall forward the complete file to the competent court, which shall be executed by the decision in respect of the number of the preceding number. The judge will transfer to the interveners for the term of five (5) days, to request or provide evidence. The judge will have twenty (20) days for the tests. The above will be carried out by the common term of five (5) days to claim the conclusion.
Vanquished the term of the transfer within thirty (30) days following, the judge will dictate judgment declaring or denying the extinction of dominion. The sentence being proposed will have effects erga omnes.
Against the judgment, only the appeal filed by the interveners or the Public Ministry, which will be resolved by the superior within thirty (30) days following the one in which the appeal is filed, will only proceed in the suspensory effect. file arrives at your office. The judgment of the first instance which denies the extinction of the domain and which is not appealed, shall in any case be submitted to the judicial level of consultation. The terms set out in this article are unextendable and mandatory and their ignorance will be constituted in a serious lack of discipline.
ARTICLE 14. OF THE NOTIFICATIONS. 18, repealed as of July 20, 2014, by article 218 of Law 1708 of 2014 > The only personal notification that will take place throughout the process of the extinction of the domain, it will be the one that takes place at the beginning of the procedure, in the terms of the article 13 of the present law. All others shall be supplied by state, except for first or second instance statements, which shall be reported by edict. No decision taken by the prosecutor is resource-sensitive.
ARTICLE 14-A. OF THE RESOURCES. 18, repealed as of July 20, 2014, by article 218 of Law 1708 of 2014 > 83 of Law 1453 of 2011. The new text is as follows: > In the domain extinction processes only the appeal against the following providences proceeds:
a) The start resolution, in the return effect;
b) The inhibition resolution, in the suspensive effect;
c) The resolution of provenance, in the return effect;
(d) The resolution of improvenance with respect to bona fide third parties, in the suspensory effect;
e) In other cases of resolution of improvenance, in the effect of the return;
f) The first instance statement, in the suspensive effect.
The providence that denies the appeal will only be eligible for reorder, except in the case of the appeal of the first instance judgment, event in which the replenishment and in-subsidy facility will proceed. request for copies for the complaint resource interposition.
ARTICLE 15. OF THE NULATIONS. 18, repealed as of July 20, 2014, by article 218 of Law 1708 of 2014 > Any nullity that the parties allege shall be considered in the resolution of provenance or improvenance, or in the judgment of first or second instance. There shall be no nullity of prior pronouncement.
ARTICLE 16. CAUSALS OF NULLITY. 18, repealed as of July 20, 2014, by article 218 of Law 1708 of 2014 > 84 of Law 1453 of 2011. The new text is as follows: > It will be cause of nullity only those established in article 140 of the Code of Civil Procedure and its processing will be the one indicated in the previous article.
ARTICLE 17. OF THE EXCEPTIONS AND INCIDENTS. 18, repealed with effect from July 20, 2014, by article 218 of Law 1708 of 2014 > In the process of extinction of domain there will be no place to (a) presentation and processing of prior exceptions or of incidents other than that of objection to serious error. All will be decided in the resolution of provenance or in the final judgment.
The parties shall propose the objection to the expert opinion, only by a serious error and within three (3) days following the transfer of the same, by submitting the evidence in which it is founded. The Prosecutor, if he considers the objection to be inappropriate, will decide in a plane; otherwise, he will have a term of five (5) days to practice tests and to decide.
ARTICLE 18. OF THE STATEMENT. The judgment will declare the extinction of all rights, principal or accessories, dismemberment, encumbrances or any other limitation to the availability or use of the good and will order its tradition in favor of the Nation through the Fund for Rehabilitation, Social Investment and Fight Against Organized Crime.
If the goods are movable or movable, and are not yet held hostage at the disposal of the Fund, the sentence shall be ordered to be immediately delivered to the Fund or to the securities to be entered at their disposal. In the case of goods incorporated in a title, the cancellation of the title and the issue of a new one shall be ordered in the name of the Fund.
If in the judgment the rights of a creditor or mortgage creditor in good faith are acknowledged, the National Narcotics Directorate, directly or through the Trust, will sell or auction, and pay the credit in terms that are indicated in the statement.
ARTICLE 19. OF THE PROCEDURAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES. 18, repealed as of July 20, 2014, by article 218 of Law 1708 of 2014 > The expenses that are incurred on the occasion of the The action of extinction of the domain, as well as those presented by the administration of the goods in the Fund for Rehabilitation, Social Investment and Fight Against Organized Crime, will be paid out of the financial returns of the goods which have entered that fund, unless the judgment declares the origin of the goods goods.
PARAGRAFO. Corresponds to the National Narcotic Council for the allocation of financial returns, in accordance with the supports that are presented by the member entities of that body for the purpose.
ARTICLE 19-C. REQUIREMENTS. 18, repealed with effect from July 20, 2014, by article 218 of Law 1708 of 2014 > 85 of Law 1453 of 2011. The new text is as follows: > Public entities such as the Agustín Codazzi Geographic Institute, Departmental Catastro, Public Instruments, Notaries and Registry, the Information and Financial Analysis Unit (UIAF), among others; private entities which are subject to requirements by the judicial police, because of their social object, must attend to such requirements immediately, in a timely and free manner, within a period not greater than five (5) working days once the requirement is based.
The shipping costs will be assumed by the entity that issues the documents, the public servant responsible in a public entity that does not comply with the established time will incur disciplinary lack. Companies that do not comply with this requirement within the time limit will be penalized with a fine of 10 minimum monthly legal salaries in force, in accordance with the provisions of article 86 of Law 222 of 1995.
OF PROCESSES IN PROGRESS.
ARTICLE 20. OF THE PROCESSES IN Progress. 18, repealed as of July 20, 2014, by article 218 of Law 1708 of 2014 > The terms and resources that you have started to run shall be governed by the law in force at the time of its initiation, in all else this law shall apply.
FINAL PROVISIONS.
ARTICLE 21. OF THE COOPERATION. 18, repealed with effect from July 20, 2014, by article 218 of Law 1708 of 2014 > The agreements and treaties of judicial cooperation signed, approved and duly ratified by Colombia, shall be fully applicable for the purpose of obtaining collaboration in the field of affectation of goods, when their content is compatible with the action of extinction of the domain.
ARTICLE 22. OF THE REPEAL. 18, repealed with effect from July 20, 2014, by article 218 of Law 1708 of 2014 > Repeal all rules and provisions that are contrary to you this Act, in particular Law 333 of 1996.
ARTICLE 23. ASSETS AND RIGHTS LOCATED IN SAN ANDRÉS. 18, repealed as of July 20, 2014, by article 218 of Law 1708 of 2014 > 267 of Law 1450 of 2011. The new text is the following: > Goods and rights located in the department Archipelago: The goods, the yields and the fruits that generate the same, located in the department Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina, whose The extinction of the domain has been decreed in accordance with this law, must be directed primarily to social programs that benefit the population of the population.
ARTICLE 24. VALIDITY. 18, repealed with effect from July 20, 2014, by article 218 of Law 1708 of 2014 > This Law governs from the date of, its enactment. However the extinction of the domain will be declared, whatever the time of the acquisition or illicit destination of the goods. In any case, it is understood that the illicit acquisition of the goods does not constitute a fair title, it causes a serious deterioration to the social morality and is conduct with permanent effects.
The President of the honorable Senate of the Republic,
LUIS ALFREDO RAMOS BOTERO.
The Secretary General of the honorable Senate of the Republic,
EMILIO RAMON OTERO DAJUD.
The President of the honorable House of Representatives,
WILLIAM VELEZ MESA.
The Secretary General of the honorable House of Representatives,
ANGELINO LIZANO RIVERA.
COLOMBIA-NATIONAL GOVERNMENT
PUBLISH AND COMPLY.
Dada en Bogotá, D. C., at December 27, 2002.
ALVARO URIBE VELEZ
The Minister of Justice and Law,
FERNANDO LONDOÑO HOYOS.
Presidency of the Republic
