City of Westminster Act 1999

25 Power to remove receptacles

(1) Where any receptacle used by a licence holder is not removed to a place of storage on the cessation of trading on any day it shall be lawful for the council to cause it to be removed to a place of storage and to recover from the licence holder the reasonable costs incurred by them in removing and storing the receptacle.

(2) Such reasonable charges as the council may incur in respect of the cost of removal and storage of a receptacle in pursuance of subsection (1) above, shall be payable by the licence holder before the return of the receptacle to him.

(3) The provisions of subsection (1) above are without prejudice to the power of the council to take other enforcement action against the licence holder for any breach of the conditions of his licence arising from the failure to remove the receptacle.

(4) If a receptacle removed under subsection (1) above is not recovered by the licence holder within three months of the date it was removed by the council it shall be lawful for the council to dispose of the receptacle in any way they think fit; the council shall take reasonable steps to sell the receptacle at the best possible price which can reasonably be obtained before disposing of it in any other manner.