Orders for delivery of certain property
685B Orders for delivery of certain property
Where any property has come into the custody or possession of a court or justices in connection with any charge, the court or justices, on the conclusion of the trial and on the application of the prosecutor, may make an order for the delivery of the property to the person appearing to the court or justices to be the person lawfully entitled thereto or, if that person can not be ascertained, may make such order with respect to the property as to the court or justices seems just.
An order so made shall not be a bar to the right of any person to recover the property by action from the person to whom it is delivered by virtue of the order. sch 1 pt 8 ch 69 s 685B ins 1986 No. 1 s 97
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