{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/city-of-westminster-act-1999/section-27E",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/city-of-westminster-act-1999/section-27E.json",
  "legislation": "ukla/1999/1",
  "legislation_title": "City of Westminster Act 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/city-of-westminster-act-1999",
  "path": "section/27E",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "27E",
  "heading": "Forfeiture of seized items by court",
  "text": "(1) Subject to subsection (2) below the court by or before which a person is convicted of an offence under section 27 (unlicensed street trading) of this Act or for an offence of aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring the commission of an offence under that section may order anything produced to the court, and shown to the satisfaction of the court to relate to the offence, to be forfeited and dealt with in such manner as the court may order.\n(2) The court shall not order anything to be forfeited under subsection (1) above where a person claiming to be the owner of or otherwise interested in it applies to be heard by the court, unless an opportunity has been given to him to show cause why the order should not be made and in considering whether to make such an order a court shall have regard—\n(a) to the value of the property; and\n(b) to the likely financial and other effects on the offender of the making of the order (taken together with any other order that the court contemplates making).\n(3) For the avoidance of doubt the court may order forfeiture notwithstanding that the value of the article, thing, receptacle or equipment exceeds the maximum penalties referred to in the said section 27.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 27-27I substituted for ss. 27-27C (27.5.2012) by virtue of London Local Authorities Act 2012 (c. ii), ss. 1(3), 10(6)-(18), Sch. 1 paras. 2-8, Sch. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/1999/1/section/27E",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:45:38.789367+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."
}