Procedure
after making detention of E private light bus.
an order for
Powers of police
officer if notice not
complied
with.
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upon the issue of whether or not an order for the detention of the vehicle should be made.
(6) In this regulation "owner" in relation to a vehicle includes--
(a) the registered owner of the vehicle;
(b) the person by whom the vehicle is kept or
used:
(c) in the case of a vehicle which is the subject of a hire agreement or hire purchase agree-
ment-
(i) the person having the legal ownership of the vehicle; and
(ii) the person in possession of the vehicle under the agreement.
29D. (1) As soon as possible after an order has been made by the court for the detention of a vehicle, the court shall cause the Commissioner to be notified in writing of the making of the order and of the terms thereof.
(2) The Commissioner shall within ten days of being so notified serve either personally or by regis- tered post on the registered owner of the vehicle, a notice in writing requiring the registered owner to deliver the vehicle to such place as the Commissioner may specify in the notice.
(3) A notice under paragraph (2)—
(a) shall specify a date by which the notice shall be complied with, being a date not less than seven days after nor more than ninety days after the date when the Com- missioner received notification from the court under paragraph (1) and
(b) may limit the days and the hours during such days when the vehicle may be de- livered to the place specified in the notice.
29E. (1) If a notice served by the Commis- sioner under paragraph (2) of regulation 29D is not complied with, any police officer
(a) may seize the vehicle in respect of which the
notice has been served; and
(6) shall, subject to paragraph (2), remove it
forthwith to the place specified in the notice.
Vehicles to
be detained For such
period as ordered by court.
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(2) If at the time when the vehicle is seized, it is not convenient for the police officer to remove it directly to the place specified in the notice, he may take the vehicle to a police station and thereafter a police officer shall remove the vehicle to the place specified in the notice as soon as is convenient and in any event not later than seven days after the date of seizure.
(3) For the purposes of seizing and removing a vehicle under paragraph (1), a police officer may—
(a) order any person who is in or on the vehicle
to alight from it;
(b) order any person who appears to him to be in possession of any keys to the vehicle to give them to him or to any other person;
and
(c) enter and search any premises or place if he knows or has reason to suspect that the vehicle is in or on such premises or at such place.
(4) A police officer may use such force as is reasonably necessary for the purpose of entering or searching any premises or place under sub-paragraph (c) of paragraph (3) or of seizing or removing any vehicle from such premises or place under paragraph (1).
(5) If a vehicle is seized and removed under paragraph (1) to a place specified in a notice served under paragraph (2) of regulation 29D-
(a)
(6)
the Commissioner of Police shall forthwith notify the Commissioner in writing of the date of the seizure; and
the Commissioner shall serve forthwith by registered post on the owner of the vehicle a notice in writing specifying the date of seizure, and the place to which the vehicle has been removed.
29F. (1) Any vehicle which-
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(2) is delivered to a place in compliance with a notice served under paragraph (2) of regula- tion 29D: or
(b) is seized and removed under paragraph (1) of regulation 29E to a place specified in a