Cap 60 s 29 Power to release seized vessels and vehicles prior to the hearing (IMPORT AND EXPORT ORDINANCE)

Contents of Section

Chapter:	60	Title:	IMPORT AND EXPORT ORDINANCE	Gazette Number:	66 of 2000
Section:	29	Heading:	Power to release seized vessels and vehicles prior to the hearing	Version Date:	01/07/1997

Remarks:

Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 66 of 2000 s. 3

(1) Where an application has been made under section 28(1) in respect of a vessel or vehicle which is liable to forfeiture, a court may, upon payment into court by way of security of a sum of money not less in amount than the value of the seized vessel or vehicle, as assessed by the Commissioner or an authorized officer, order that the vessel or vehicle be delivered to the claimant thereof upon the condition that the vessel or vehicle be re-delivered into the custody of the Commissioner before the date of hearing of the application.
(2) If-

(a) a court has ordered under subsection (1) that a seized vessel or vehicle be delivered to the claimant thereof; and

(b) the vessel or vehicle is not delivered into the custody of the Commissioner before the date of the hearing of the application,

the court hearing the application may, in lieu of ordering under section 28(6) or (7) that the vessel or vehicle be forfeited to the Government, order that the money paid into court under subsection (1) of this section be forfeited to the Government or returned to the person who paid it into court. (Amended 66 of 2000 s. 3)
(3) A claimant who applies for the release of a vessel or vehicle shall prior to the release of the vessel or vehicle pay to the Commissioner the reasonable cost of assessing the value of the vessel or vehicle as the court orders. (Added 62 of 1993 s. 10)

(Amended L.N. 294 of 1982; 1 of 1994 s. 12)