# Birmingham Commonwealth Games Act 2020, Paragraph 11


(1) This paragraph applies where—
(a) a relevant authority no longer wishes to retain a seized item for any purpose,
(b) the period of 3 months beginning with the day on which the item was seized has ended (but see sub-paragraph (4)), and
(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.
(2) In this paragraph “seized item” means an item seized—
(a) under paragraph 3 of this Schedule, or
(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.
(3) The authority may dispose of the item in whatever way the authority considers appropriate.
(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).
(5) The persons “entitled” to an item for the purposes of this paragraph are—
(a) the person from whom it was seized;
(b) (if different) any person to whom it belongs.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2020/10/schedule/3/paragraph/11 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/birmingham-commonwealth-games-act-2020/schedule-3/paragraph-11
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