Date-stamp loading
Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 1 June 2015 - onwards
    Version 1 of 1    

120A. Restraint orders: power to retain seized property etc.

(1) A restraint order may include provision authorising the detention of any property to which it applies if the property -

(a) is seized by an appropriate officer under a relevant seizure power, or

(b) is produced to an appropriate officer in compliance with a production order under section 380.

(2) Provision under subsection (1) may, in particular -

(a) relate to specified property, to property of a specified description or to all property to which the restraint order applies;

(b) relate to property that has already been seized or produced or to property that may be seized or produced in future.

(3) “Appropriate officer” means -

(a) a constable;

(b) an officer of Revenue and Customs;

(ba) an immigration officer;

(c) a National Crime Agency officer;

(4) “Relevant seizure power” means a power to seize property conferred by or by virtue of -

(a) section 127C or 387,

(b) a warrant granted under any other enactment or any rule of law, or

(c) any other enactment, or any rule of law

Comparing proposed amendment...