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DRUGS OF DEPENDENCE ACT 1989 - SECT 197

Seized property

    (1)     If property has been seized under division 11.3, the person who possessed that property immediately before its seizure may recover the property—

        (a)     if, within 3 months of the seizure, proceedings are instituted for an offence in relation to which the property could, in the opinion of the chief police officer or the director of public prosecutions, provide evidence—after those proceedings are completed; or

        (b)     in any other case—at the end of 3 months after the date of seizure.

    (2)     This section does not apply in relation to a substance that an analyst has identified as being, or containing, a drug of dependence, prohibited substance or chapter 6 substance.



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