(1) A police officer,
other than a senior police officer, who seizes and impounds a motor cycle
under section 80O(2) or gives a surrender notice under section 80P(2) must, as
soon as practicable after the notice is given, inform a senior police officer
of the following —
(a) the
date the seizure and impounding or the giving of the notice, as the case
requires;
(b) the
police officer’s grounds for suspecting the matters referred to in
section 80O(1)(a) to (c);
(c)
whether or not the motor cycle has been seized or surrendered.
(2) A senior police
officer who is informed under subsection (1) must make enquiries as to whether
there were reasonable grounds for suspecting the matters referred to in
section 80O(1)(a) to (c).
(3) If the senior
police officer is not satisfied that there were reasonable grounds for
suspecting the matters referred to in section 80O(1)(a) to (c), the senior
police officer must, as soon as practicable —
(a) if
the motor cycle has been impounded under section 80P, cancel the surrender
notice and give a written notice of the cancellation to each person to whom
the notice was given; and
(b)
ensure that the motor cycle is returned to a responsible person for the motor
cycle, or if no responsible person is available, to the driver of the motor
cycle at the time of its suspected use.
[Section 80R inserted: No. 51 of 2016 s. 45.]