Western Australian Consolidated Regulations

PRISONS REGULATIONS 1982 - REG 37

37 .         Disposal of unclaimed property

        (1)         Property left at a prison and uncollected, abandoned, or unclaimed for a period of 3 months may by order of the chief executive officer be — 

            (a)         sold at a public auction;

            (b)         given to an association incorporated under the Associations Incorporation Act 1987 ; or

            (c)         destroyed or otherwise disposed of.

        (2)         The chief executive officer shall on at least one occasion before a public auction is conducted under subregulation (1) cause a notice to be published in the Government Gazette describing the property to be offered for sale and giving the time, date and place of the auction.

        (3)         The net proceeds of an auction sale conducted under this regulation shall be paid into the Prisoners’ Industrial Trust Fund.

        [Regulation 37 amended in Gazette 11 Dec 1987 p. 4369; 2 Nov 1999 p. 5475; 11 Feb 2003 p. 416; 9 May 2008 p. 1844.]

        [Heading inserted in Gazette 3 Apr 2007 p. 1495.]