Cap. 417 Art. 53Procedure where owner is unknown.

(1) In the case referred to in article 51 the Court shall order the issue of banns which shall be published twice, with an interval for at least eight days, in the Government Gazette, and posted up at the entrance of the building wherein the court sits, and in any other place which the court may deem fit, stating that the goods or things seized shall be forfeited, unless at the time and place named in the banns the proprietor of such goods or things or other person interested in such goods or things attends before the court and shows cause to the contrary.

(2) If the owner or any person on his behalf, or other person interested in the said goods or things, fails to attend at the time and place named in the banns to show cause to the contrary, it shall be lawful for the Court to direct that such goods or things or any of them be forfeited.