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| (1) The seizure by any police officer of property taken under section 29 or alleged or suspected to have been stolen or found under circumstances which create suspicion of the commission of any offence shall be immediately reported to a Magistrate who shall forthwith make such order as he thinks fit respecting the delivery of such property to the person entitled to the possession thereof, or if such person cannot be ascertained respecting 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 case publish a notification in the court notice-board and two other public places to be decided on by the Magistrate, 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 six months from the date of such public notification. |
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| (3) Such notification may also, if the Magistrate thinks fit, be published at least once in newspapers published in Sinhala, Tamil and English if the value of the property amounts to two thousand five hundred rupees or more. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts