19. The following new section is hereby inserted immediately after section 38 and shall have effect as section 38A of the principal enactment:-
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| | (1) A court may, at anytime after the production before such court, of any tool boat, cart, cattle, motor vehicle, machine, implement, raft, tug, trailer or any other mode of transport motorised or otherwise (in this section and section 42 referred to as " production") seized under section 37, by notice, issued to the owner or the registered owner, as the case may be of such production, direct that it be released to the owner or the registered owner as the case may be thereof within such period as may be specified in such notice, on his depositing in court the value of the production being released, as security. | | |
| | (2) If any production released to its owner or registered owner under subsection (1) is subsequently seized thereafter under section 37, the same may be released to the owner or the registered owner thereof in the manner specified in subsection (1). | | |
| | (3) An amount deposited in court as security under subsection (1) or (2) for the release of any production, shall be forfeited to the State on conviction of a person of a forest offence in respect of, or by the use of, such production, whether or not such person is the owner or registered owner thereof.". | | |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts