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Chapter:

138 PDFTitle:PHARMACY AND POISONS ORDINANCEGazette Number:60 of 2000
Section:36Heading:ForfeitureVersion Date:01/07/1997

Remarks:

Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 60 of 2000 s. 3

(1) Any magistrate may, on application by the Government, order to be forfeited any pharmaceutical product or medicine or any substance or article consisting of or containing any poison with respect to which any offence under this Ordinance has been committed, whether any person has been convicted of such offence or not, and upon the making of any order of forfeiture such substance or article shall be deemed to be the property of the Government free from all rights of any person. (Amended 58 of 1986 s. 11; 60 of 2000 s. 3)
(2) In any proceedings on application under subsection (1), any statement or other indication of the nature of any substance or article written upon or attached to any substance, article or container shall, until the contrary is proved, be deemed to be a true description of the substance or article or of the contents of the container, as the case may be.