Limitation on seizure etc.
39 Limitation on seizure etc.
Where an authorised person has seized and retained or secured any thing pursuant to section 37 that thing may be so retained or secured until the expiration of 60 days from its seizure or, if within that period proceedings are commenced in which the thing seized may afford evidence, until those proceedings (including all appeals arising out of those proceedings) are terminated.
At any time while anything seized is retained or secured the Minister may, by instrument in writing, authorise its release to the person from whose possession it was seized, either unconditionally or upon such conditions as the Minister thinks fit and such instrument shall be given effect.
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