DRUGS, POISONS AND CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT 1981 - SECT 81B Application for tainted property to be held or retained—return of warrant to court
DRUGS, POISONS AND CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT 1981 - SECT 81B
Application for tainted property to be held or retained—return of warrant to courtS. 81B(1) amended by Nos 25/2009 s. 6(9), 37/2014 s. 10(Sch. item 47.39).
(1) When a thing or document is brought before the Magistrates' Court to be dealt with according to law in accordance with the warrant issued under section 81 under which that thing or document was seized, the police officer who executed the warrant or another police officer may apply to the Court for a direction that the thing or document so seized be held or retained as if it were tainted property seized under a warrant under section 79 of the Confiscation Act 1997 .
(2) An application may only be made under subsection (1) if a direction under section 81(1A) was not made in relation to the warrant when it was issued.
S. 81C inserted by No. 63/2003 s. 47.