Serre &nd FEMOVE OF vehicle.
Forfeiture
and disposal
of Tchleit.
(2) Any penalty due under subsection (1) may be recovered from the registered owner by civil proceedings as a debt due to the Crown.
MK. (1) I a motor vehicle has not been delivered into the custody of the Commissioner at the expiration of 7 days after the date specified in a notice served under section 261, any police officer may seize the motor vehicle.
(2) Subject to subsection (3), a police officer who has Beized a motor vehicle under subsection (1) shall deliver it forthwith into the custody of the Commissioner at the place specified in the notice under section 261
(3) If at the time when a motor vehicle is seized it is not practicable for a police officer to deliver it directly to the place specified in the police under section 261, he may take the motor vehicle to a police station, and thereafter a police officer shall deliver it to such place as soon as practicable and in any event not later than 7 days after the seizure,
(4) For the purpose of seizing a motor vehicle under this section, a police officer may
(a) order any person who is in or on the motor vehiclp
to alight from it:
(6) order any person who appears to him to be in possession of any keys to the motor vehicle to give Them to him or to any other person; and
(e) enter and search any premissa or place if he koows or has reason to suspect that the motor vehicle is in or on such prentises or place.
(5) A police officer may use such force as is reasonably necessary for the purpose of entering or searching any premises or place under subsection (4)(c) or of seizing or removing any motor vehicle from such premises or place under this section.
26L. (1) If a motor vehicle is
(a) delivered into the custody of the Commissioner in accordance with a notice served under section 261; or
(b) scized and delivered into his custody under section
261.
the Commissioner shall, within 10 days of its delivery into his custody, serve on the registered owner a notice in Writing in accordance with subsection (2).
(2) A notice under subsection (1) shall-
(a) specify.
(1) the date of delivery into the custody of the Commissioner; and
(ii) the place at which the motor vehicle is being held; and
(3) notify the registered owner that at the expiry of the period of suspension the Commissioner "will return the motor vehicle to the registered owner if, not later than 30 days after the expiry of the period of suspension, the registered owner-
Reprd and cerullence of
( claims the motor vehicle; and
(i) pays to the Commissioner any penalty payable under section 267 and, if the vehicle was seized by a police officer under section 26K, a fee of $80; and
(c) notify the registered owner of the effect of subsce-
tion (4)
(3) If the registered owner claims the motor vehicle within 30 days after the expiry of the period of suspension of the licence, the Commissioner shall, on payment of any penalty payable under section_26) and the sum of $80 if the vehicle was seized by a police officer under section 26K, return the motor vehicle to the registered owner.
(4) If the registered owner does not make a claim for the return within 30 days after the expiry of the period of suspension, the motor vehicle shall thereupon be forfeited to the Crown and may be sold or otherwise disposed of in such manner as the Commissioner thinks fit,
26M. (1) The Commissioner shall keep a record of the registration mark of every motor vehicle in connexion All went with which any person is alleged to have committed an
offence specified in the First Schedule.
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0 The Commissioner shall, on application made to him in such manner as he may determine, issue a certificate stating whether or not at the time of the issue of the certificate any person is, according to the record maintained under subsection (1), alleged to have committed an offence specified in the First Schedule în connexion with the moler vehicle bearing the registration mark specified in the application
(3) A certificato issued under subsection (2) shall be valid for 72 hours from the time of issue.
26N. For the purposes of section 26M the Commix- stoner of Police shall notify the Commissioner of every internation for alleged offence specified in the First Schedule.
the record. Flest Schedule.
Bemoval of regladon mark from. the record. Tem Schedule,
Application of section 24P bo 2451
260. Where a person who is alleged to have committed an offence specified in the First Schedule in connexion with a motor vehicle the registration mark of which has been recorded under section 26M-
(a) is not prosecuted for that offence;
(5) is found not guilty of that offence;
(c) has his conviction for that offence quashed on
appeal,
the Commissioner shall forthwith remove from the record the registration mark of the motor vehicle concerned,
26P. (1) Sections 26F to 26L shall not apply or shall Crase to apply where a motor vehicle is sold or otherwise disposed of and the new registered owner is, at the time of delivery of notice of transfer of ownership in accordance with the regulations, in possession of a valid certificate issued by the Commissioner under section 26M to the effect that
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