Cap. 37 Art. 89Collection of objects.

(1) If in any Court judgment, whether of a civil or a criminal nature, the Court releases in favour of a person objects that are seized by the Commissioner, and the person fails to collect those objects from Customs within sixty (60) days from the date of judgment, the

Commissioner may send a registered letter or leave a letter at the person’s last known address and impose a time limit of sixty (60) days from the date of the letter, within which the person shall collect the objects from the Commissioner. If the person fails to collect the objects from the Commissioner within the given time limit, which time limit may be extended on the request of the person concerned for valid reasons, the objects become the property of the Commissioner.

(2) If the letter is not notified in a way specified in sub-article (1), the Commissioner shall publish a notice in the Gazette with the content of the letter and if the person does not collect the objects from Customs within sixty (60) days from publication, the objects become the property of the Commissioner.

(3) The provisions of sub-articles (1) and (2) also apply in circumstances where the Commissioner returns the objects that were withheld by him under any provision of the law but the person fails to collect them.

(4) (a) In the case of the destruction of the goods, the cost of the destruction of the goods that are not collected and become the property of the Commissioner, as provided in this article, shall be paid by the person to whom the goods were originally released.

(b) The cost of destruction shall constitute a civil debt owed and payable to the Commissioner by the person to whom the goods were originally released.