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Seizure of property the proceeds of indictable offence.
24 of 1950, Schedule.
Seizure of things intended for use Criminal Procedure.
(3) Any person to whom any property is offered to be sold, pawned, or delivered, and who has reasonable ground to suspect that any indictable offence has been or is about to be committed on or with respect to such property, may, and, if he can, shall, without warrant, apprehend the person offering the same and take possession of the property so offered.
(4) Every person who finds any person in possession of any property which he, on reasonable grounds, suspects to have been obtained by means of an indictable offence may arrest such last-mentioned person without warrant and take possession of the property.
(5) Every person who arrests any person under any of the provisions herein contained shall (if the person making the arrest is not himself a police officer) deliver the person so arrested, and the property, if any, taken possession of by him, to some police officer in order that he may be conveyed as soon as reasonably may be before a magistrate, to be by him dealt with according to law, or himself convey him before a magistrate, as soon as reasonably may be, for that purpose.
(6) Nothing in this section shall affect the powers of apprehension conferred upon constables or other persons by any other enactment.
Seizure of property.
103. Any magistrate or the court may order the seizure of any property which there is reason to believe has been obtained by, or is the proceeds of, any indictable offence, or into which the proceeds of any indictable offence have been converted, and may direct that the same shall be kept or sold, and that the same, or the proceeds thereof, if sold, shall be held as he or it directs, until some person establishes, to his or its satisfaction, a right thereto. If no person establishes such a right within twelve months from the seizure, such property, or the proceeds thereof, shall be forfeited to the Crown.
104. Any magistrate or the court may order the seizure of any instruments, materials or things which there is reason to believe are provided or prepared, or being prepared, with a view to the commission of any indictable offence, and may
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