94Dealing with things seized—general requirements

94 Dealing with things seized—general requirements (1) For the purposes of sections 46(3) and 55H(2) of the Act, a Governor or the Secretary (as the case may be) must deal with a thing seized under those sections in accordance with this regulation. (2) If a firearm or an explosive substance is seized, the firearm or the explosive substance must be given to a police officer as soon as possible. (3) If a quantity of a drug of dependence is seized under section 55C(2)(c) of the Act, the quantity of the drug of dependence must be given to a police officer as soon as possible. (4) If any other thing is seized, the Governor or the Secretary must direct that the thing is dealt with by one or more of the following ways— (a) retention of the thing as evidence; (b) disposal of the thing in a manner allowed by law; (c) return of the thing to the owner of the thing (if reasonably practicable); (d) declaration of the thing as forfeit to the Crown if the thing was involved in the commission of a criminal offence; (e) dismantling of the thing in a manner allowed by law; (f) dealing with the thing in a manner that is appropriate to the nature of the thing and the circumstances under which it was seized; (g) if the thing is seized from a prisoner—storage of the thing as a part of the prisoner's property.