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after making an order for detention of a public light bus.
(b) did not permit the commission of the
offence; or
(c) had taken reasonable steps to prevent the
commission of the offence,
shall not be a special reason.
(3) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), if the court is satisfied-
(a) that a person who was the registered owner of the vehicle when the offence was com- milled has at any time, whether before or after the commission of the offence, trans- ferred any interest in the vehicle to a hona fide purchaser for value;
(6) that the purchaser would be adversely affected if the vehicle were detained under paragraph (1) of regulation 41F; and
(c) that it would be unjust if the purchaser were
so affected.
the court shall not make any order for the detention of the vehicle.
(4) Before making an order under paragraph (1) for the detention of a vehicle, the court. if any per- son claiming to be the owner of the vehicle is present in court, shall allow such person reasonable oppor- tunity-
(a) to address the court;
(b) to give evidence; and
(c) to call witnesses,
upon the issue of whether or not an order for the detention of the vehicle should be made under para- graph (b).
41C. (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.
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(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 dinety 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. 410. (1) If a notice served by the Commis- sioner under paragraph (2) of regulation 41C 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.
(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 police station and there- after 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).