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Forfeiture and disposal of certain equipment and goods.

PART VI

FORFEITURE

28. (1) All weighing or measuring equipment or goods

seized under section 24 shall be liable to forfeiture,

whether or not any person has been convicted of an offence

in respect of the equipment or goods.

(2) Where weighing or measuring equipment or goods

are detained under section 24, the Commissioner may at any

time release such equipment or goods to the person who

appears to him to be the owner thereof or his authorized

gent subject to any such condition as the Commissioner may

specify in writing.

(3) Where any weighing or measuring equipment or

goods detained under section 24 have not been released

under subsection (2), the Commissioner may, whether in the

same proceedings where an offence is prosecuted or in other

proceedings under this Ordinance relating to that equipment

or goods, apply to a magistrate for the forfeiture of the

equipment or goods.

(4) If, on the hearing of an application under

subsection (3), the magistrate is satisfied that the

weighing or measuring equipment or goods are liable to

forfeiture, the magistrate may order that the equipment or

goods