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Provided that no such order shall be made either under paragraph (a) or (b) unless the magistrate is satisfied that the property will not be required as an exhibit in any further proceedings before a magistrate or before the court and is not perishable and no such order shall be made until ten days after the determination of such trial and that, if in the meanwhile an appeal has been lodged under section 103 or 111, no such order shall be made until any such appeal has been determined or abandoned.
(2) Where an order for sale has been made under the preceding subsection, the rights of any person in the property ordered to be sold shall be extinguished in favour of the Crown, but he shall, until the expiration of six months from the time when such property came into the hands of the police, have a corresponding interest in the proceeds of sale. Upon the expiration of such period of six months then subject to any order made by a magistrate under subsection (3) pursuant to an application lodged before the expiration of such period the proceeds of sale shall be forfeited to the Crown.
(3) A magistrate may upon application by a person claiming a right in the proceeds of sale order that such proceeds or the portion thereof to which a right has been established shall be paid to the person establishing such right.
(4) Where the retention or disposal of property is ordered under paragraph (b) of subsection (1), the order shall not affect the right of any person to take within six months from the date of the order legal proceedings against any person in possession of property delivered to him by virtue of such order, but on the expiration of those six months the right shall cease.
(5) Where by any other enactment it is provided that any particular property or class of property should or may be forfeited, destroyed or disposed of, then the provisions of such enactment shall prevail.
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