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NO. 42 OF 2022


(ii) reported to a Magistrate’s Court, in which event sections 370, 371 and 372 of the Criminal Procedure Code 2010 then apply with the necessary modifications.
(8) Where it appears to the Board that any fence, partition, structure, object, vehicle, material, article, thing or resulting debris removed by an authorised officer under subsection (5)—
(a) is perishable;
(b) may rapidly depreciate in value; or
(c) is of such a nature or in such condition that it would be dangerous, not reasonably practicable or unduly costly for the Board to retain custody of the fence, partition, structure, object, vehicle, material, article, thing or debris,
the Board may cause the fence, partition, structure, object, vehicle, material, article, thing or debris (called in this section the removed material)—
(d) to be sold (by public auction or otherwise) at once and the proceeds of sale to be paid into the funds of the Board; or
(e) to be destroyed or otherwise disposed of at such time and in such manner as the Board thinks fit.
(9) If a person who appears, to the satisfaction of the Board, to be the owner of any removed material and not to be a person in default with complying with the relevant notice in subsection (2), claims—
(a) after that removed material has been sold, destroyed or disposed of under subsection (8); but