73Dealing with seized things

73 Dealing with seized things

73 Dealing with seized things

(1) If an inspector seizes anything under section 70 on premises, the inspector must give the person apparently in charge of the premises a written receipt for the thing seized.

(2) An inspector may keep anything seized under section 70 until the completion of proceedings, including proceedings on appeal, 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 given, within a reasonable time after the seizure, a copy of the record certified by the inspector as a true copy.

(4) The copy is, as evidence, of equal validity to the document of which the copy is certified to be a copy.

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