http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1995/25/section/110CEnvironment Act 1995An Act to provide for the establishment of a body corporate to be known as the Environment Agency and a body corporate to be known as the Scottish Environment Protection Agency; to provide for the transfer of functions, property, rights and liabilities to those bodies and for the conferring of other functions on them; to make provision with respect to contaminated land and abandoned mines; to make further provision in relation to National Parks; to make further provision for the control of pollution, the conservation of natural resources and the conservation or enhancement of the environment; to make provision for imposing obligations on certain persons in respect of certain products or materials; to make provision in relation to fisheries; to make provision for certain enactments to bind the Crown; to make provision with respect to the application of certain enactments in relation to the Isles of Scilly; and for connected purposes.1995-07-19texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2025-11-05Expert Participation2025-11-01 Environment Act 1995Sch. 7 para. 7(4A) (4B)Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007Sch. 14 para. 4(3)s. 245(5) Part V110C1Where property has been seized under section 110A on behalf of SEPA or a waste collection authority, the authority on whose behalf it was seized (the “responsible authority”) may remove the seized property to a place which it considers appropriate.2The responsible authority must—adeal with any seized property in accordance with regulations made by the Scottish Ministers, andbin so doing, have regard to any guidance issued by the Scottish Ministers.3Regulations under subsection (2)(a)—amust set out—ithe duties of a responsible authority in relation to the safe custody of seized property,iithe circumstances in which seized property must be returned to a person claiming entitlement to it,iiithe circumstances in which a responsible authority may sell, destroy or otherwise dispose of seized property, andivthe uses to which the proceeds of any sale may be put,bmust require a responsible authority to publish a notice in such form, and to take any other steps, as may be specified in the regulations for informing persons who may be entitled to the seized property that it has been seized and is available to be claimed,cmust require a responsible authority to wait for a period specified in the regulations before selling, destroying or otherwise disposing of seized property, with that period beginning only once the responsible authority has taken steps specified in the regulations to inform anyone who may be entitled to the seized property in question that it has been seized and how a claim for its return may be made,dmay—iprovide for exceptions to the requirements described by paragraphs (b) and (c),iiinclude any other provision that the Scottish Ministers consider appropriate.4Regulations under subsection (2)(a) are subject to the affirmative procedure.Ss. 110A-110D and cross-heading inserted (S.) (1.8.2025 for specified purposes) by Circular Economy (Scotland) Act 2024 (asp 13), ss. 19(2), 27(2); S.S.I. 2025/170, reg. 2, sch.