Explanatory Notes

Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001

2001 CHAPTER 16

11th May 2001

Commentary on Sections

Part 2: Powers of seizure

Outline of proposals

Section 58: Person to whom seized property is to be returned

175.This section sets out for the purposes of the Act to whom property which is obliged to be returned under Part 2 should be returned. This is normally the person from whom it is seized unless the police or others consider someone else has a better claim to it. Subsections (4) and (5) define the occupier of a premises as being the person from whom property is seized when it is seized from a premises.