79Dealing with seized things

79 Dealing with seized things

79 Dealing with seized things

(1) If an inspector seizes a thing on premises under section 78, the inspector must give the person apparently in charge of the premises a written receipt for the seized thing.

(2) An inspector may keep a thing seized under section 78 until the completion of proceedings in which the thing may be evidence.

(3) A record may be kept under subsection (2) only if the person from whom the record was seized is, within a reasonable time after the seizure, given a copy of the record certified by the inspector as a true copy.

(4) Subsection (2) ceases to have effect in relation to a thing seized if, on the application of a person affected by the seizure, the court in which proceedings referred to in that subsection are commenced so orders.