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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-disposal-of-sound-equipment-regulations-1995/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1995/722",
  "legislation_title": "The Police (Disposal of Sound Equipment) Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-disposal-of-sound-equipment-regulations-1995",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nUnder section 66(1) of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 a court may, on the summary conviction of a person for an offence under section 63 (which relates to raves), order the forfeiture of sound equipment which was used at the rave and which either was seized from him by the police or was in his possession or under his control at the time.\nSubsections (5) and (6) of section 66 allow the owner of the equipment, unless he is the person from whom the equipment was seized, to claim it by applying to the court within six months for an order for delivery of the equipment (in England and Wales) or for the return of the equipment (in Scotland).\nThese Regulations provide for the disposal of this equipment by the police where the court has made no order by virtue of section 66(5) or (6). By regulation 3, the police must sell the equipment unless a police officer not below the rank of superintendent is satisfied that because of the nature of the equipment it is not in the public interest to do so, in which case it may be disposed of according to his directions.\nUnder regulation 4, any proceeds of sale must be paid to the police authority and must be kept in a separate fund. The regulation provides for expenditure from, and auditing of, the fund.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/722/note",
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  "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."
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