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Paragraph 24 Recovery of expenses of enforcementI1

United Kingdom

(1)

This paragraph shall apply where a court—

(a)

convicts a person of an offence in relation to any construction products under any provision of Part 2 of this Schedule; or

(b)

makes an order under paragraph 9 for the forfeiture of any construction products.

(2)

The court may (in addition to any other order it may make as to costs or expenses) order the person convicted or, as the case may be, any person having an interest in the products to reimburse an enforcement authority for any expenditure which has been or may be incurred by that authority—

(a)

in connection with any seizure or detention of the products by or on behalf of the authority; or

(b)

in connection with any compliance by the authority with directions given by the court for the purposes of any order for the forfeiture of the products.

Annotations

Commencement

I1

Sch. 3 para. 24 in force at 31.12.2020 immediately before the 2019 Regulations come into force, see reg. 1