Telecommunications Act 1984
c. 12
(3D) The court by whom any apparatus is ordered to be
forfeited under this section may also order the person by
whom the offence giving rise to the forfeiture was committed
not to dispose of that apparatus except by delivering it up
to the Secretary of State within forty-eight hours of being
so required by him.
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(3E) If a person against whom an order is made under
subsection (3D) of this section contravenes that order or
fails to deliver up the apparatus to the Secretary of State as
required he shall be guilty of a further offence under this
Act which, for the purpose of determining the appropriate
penalty in accordance with the provisions of this section
relating to penalties (whether as originally enacted or as
substituted by paragraph 1 of Schedule 3 to the Telecommunications Act 1984), shall be treated as an offence under
the same provision as the offence for which the forfeiture
was ordered.".
83.-(1) Any property seized by a person authorised by the Disposal of
Secretary of State in pursuance of a warrant under section 15(1) apparatus and
of the 1949 Act or in exercise of the power conferred by section other
property
79(3) above may be detainedby
(a) until the end of the period of six months beginning with virtue of
section 79.
the date of the seizure ; or
(b) if proceedings for an offence to which section 79 above
applies involving that property or proceedings for
forfeiture of that property under section 80 or 81 above
are instituted within that period, until the conclusion
of those proceedings.
(2) After the end of the period for which its detention is
authorised by virtue of subsection (1) above, any such property
which-
in the possession of the Secretary of State ; and
has not been ordered to be forfeited under section 14
of the 1949 Act (which includes provision for forfeiture
of wireless telegraphy apparatus used in the commission of certain offences) or under section 80 or 81
above ;
shall be dealt with in accordance with the following provisions
of this section (and references in those provisions to the relevant property are references to any property to which this subsection applies).
(3) The Secretary of State shall take reasonable steps to
deliver the relevant property to any person appearing to him
to be its owner.
(a) remains
(b)
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