SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 3FORFEITURE OF TERRORIST CASH

PART 2Seizure and Detention

Release of detained cash5

1

This paragraph applies while any cash is detained under this Schedule.

2

A magistrates' court may direct the release of the whole or any part of the cash if satisfied, on an application by the person from whom it was seized, that the conditions in paragraph 3 for the detention of cash are no longer met in relation to the cash to be released.

3

An authorised officer may, after notifying the magistrates' court or justice or magistrate 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.

4

But cash is not to be released—

a

if an application for its forfeiture under paragraph 6, or for its release under paragraph 9, is made, until any proceedings in pursuance of the application (including any proceedings on appeal) are concluded,

b

if (in the Territory or elsewhere) proceedings are started against any person for an offence with which the cash is connected, until the proceedings are concluded.