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Part 5Civil recovery of the proceeds etc. of unlawful conduct

Chapter 3Recovery of cash in summary proceedings

Seizure and detention

297Release of detained cash

(1)This section applies while any cash is detained under section 295.

(2)A magistrates' court or (in Scotland) the sheriff may direct the release of the whole or any part of the cash if the following condition is met.

(3)The condition is that the court or sheriff is satisfied, on an application by the person from whom the cash was seized, that the conditions in section 295 for the detention of the cash are no longer met in relation to the cash to be released.

(4)A customs officer, constable or (in Scotland) procurator fiscal may, after notifying the magistrates' court, sheriff or justice under whose order cash is being detained, release the whole or any part of it if satisfied that the detention of the cash to be released is no longer justified.