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| (1) The seizure by any police officer of property alleged or suspected to have been stolen or found under circumstances which create suspicion of the commission of any offence shall be forthwith reported to a Magistrate who shall make such order as he thinks fit in respect of the delivery of such property to the person entitled to the possession thereof, or if such person cannot be ascertained, in respect of the custody and production of such property. |
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| (2) If the person so entitled is known, the Magistrate may order the property to be delivered to him on such conditions, if any, as the Magistrate thinks fit. If such person is unknown, the Magistrate may detain it and shall in such ease issue a public notification specifying the articles of which such property consists and requiring any person who may have a claim thereto to come before him and establish his claim, within a prescribed time. |
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| (3) If no person within such period establishes his claim to such property and if the person in whose possession such property was found is unable to show that it was legally acquired by him, such property shall be at the disposal of the Government and may be sold under the orders of the Magistrate. |
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| (4) If the person entitled to the possession of such property is unknown or absent and the property is subject to speedy and natural decay or the Magistrate to whom its seizure is reported is of opinion that its sale would be for the benefit of the owner, the Magistrate may at any time direct it to be sold. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts