F1Supplementary provisions relating to forfeiture proceedingsN.I.
6.—(1) If the court does not order forfeiture as respects any articles brought before it, it may, if it thinks fit, order the person upon whose complaint the warrant for their seizure was issued to pay such costs as the court thinks reasonable to any person who has appeared before it to show cause why the photographs[F2 or pseudo‐photographs] should not be forfeited.
(2) Costs ordered to be paid under paragraph (1) shall be recoverable as a civil debt.
(3) Where any of the articles are ordered to be forfeited under Article 5(3), any person who appears, or was entitled to appear, to show cause against the making of the order may appeal to the county court in accordance with[F3 Part XII of the Magistrates' Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981].
(4) An order made under Article 5(3) or (5) (including an order made on appeal) shall not take effect until the expiration of the ordinary time within which an appeal may be instituted or where such an appeal is duly instituted, until the appeal is finally decided or abandoned; and for this purpose—
(a)an application for a case to be stated or for leave to appeal shall be treated as the institution of an appeal; and
(b)where a decision on appeal is subject to a further appeal, the appeal is not finally decided until the expiration of the ordinary time within which a further appeal may be instituted or, where a further appeal is duly instituted, until the further appeal is finally decided or abandoned.
F1Art. 5 substituted (1.4.2008) for arts. 5, 6 by Police and Justice Act 2006 (c. 48), ss. 40(3), 53(1)(a) (with s. 40(6)(7)); S.I. 2008/790, art. 3(a)