{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/birmingham-commonwealth-games-act-2020/schedule-3/paragraph-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/birmingham-commonwealth-games-act-2020/schedule-3/paragraph-11.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2020/10",
  "legislation_title": "Birmingham Commonwealth Games Act 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/birmingham-commonwealth-games-act-2020",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/11",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies where—\n(a) a relevant authority no longer wishes to retain a seized item for any purpose,\n(b) the period of 3 months beginning with the day on which the item was seized has ended (but see sub-paragraph (4)), and\n(c) reasonable efforts have been made, without success, to find a person entitled to the item, or it is for some other reason impracticable to return the item to a person entitled to it.\n(2) In this paragraph “seized item” means an item seized—\n(a) under paragraph 3 of this Schedule, or\n(b) in the exercise of a power in paragraph 28 or 29 of Schedule 5 to the 2015 Act for the purpose of enforcing a relevant offence.\n(3) The authority may dispose of the item in whatever way the authority considers appropriate.\n(4) In the case of a perishable item which no longer has any commercial value, the authority may dispose of the item before the end of the period mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(b).\n(5) The persons “entitled” to an item for the purposes of this paragraph are—\n(a) the person from whom it was seized;\n(b) (if different) any person to whom it belongs.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2020/10/schedule/3/paragraph/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:01:49.329090+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}