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(4) If any finder or person establishing title as aforesaid fails or refuses immediately to pay the said expenses or sum awarded, the property may be sold and the proceeds of sale after deduction of all expenses reasonably incurred shall be paid to such finder or person establishing title; in the case of payment to a person establishing title there shall also be deducted such sum as may be awarded by the Commissioner as a reward to the finder (if any) of the property.
(5) If title to the property is not established and either the finder cannot be traced or the property came into the custody or possession of the police otherwise than through a finder, the property may be sold and after deduction of all expenses reasonably incurred the proceeds of sale shall be paid into the Treasury.
41. Any property of a person held in custody on remand which comes into the custody or possession of the police in accordance with the requirements of this Ordinance or of the Prisons Ordinance, or of any regulations or orders made thereunder, which remains unclaimed by any such person for a period of 1 month from the discharge of such person from custody, may be sold and after deduction of expenses reasonably incurred the proceeds of sale shall be paid into the Treasury.
42. (1) Whenever any person dies leaving goods and chattels in the Colony under $5,000 in value, which goods and chattels are, in the absence of any person entitled thereto, taken charge of by the police for the purpose of safe custody, the Commissioner may, if he thinks fit, order the said goods and chattels to be delivered, without grant of probate or letters of administration taken out, to any person claiming to be entitled to the whole or any part thereof, if he shall be satisfied as to the title of the claimant and the value of the goods and chattels by the oath or affirmation of the claimant, or by such other evidence as he may require. (Amended, 12 of 1982, s. 10)
(2) In the event of any such goods and chattels being of a perishable nature or likely to be deteriorated in value by being kept, the Commissioner may order the sale thereof and the proceeds of such sale shall be dealt with in the manner specified in subsection (1).
(3) The Commissioner may, at his discretion, before making any order under subsections (1) and (2), take such security as he may think proper for the due administration and distribution of such goods and chattels. Nothing in this section contained shall affect the right of any person to recover the whole or any part of the same from the person to whom it may have been delivered pursuant to such order.
(4) Any goods and chattels taken charge of under this section and not claimed within the period of 1 month, may be sold and the proceeds of sale shall be paid into the Treasury.
Disposal of unclaimed property of persons in custody on remand.
(Cap. 234.)
Power to administer certain property of deceased persons.