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Section 20 Power of forfeiture.

England, Wales and Scotland

Where a person is convicted under this Act in respect of any materials or article owned by him, the court may, in addition to any penalty imposed by them, order that the materials or article shall be forfeited and, upon any such order, notwithstanding anything in F1section 140 of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980, the materials or article shall be forfeited to the local authority for the area where the offence was committed to be disposed of by them in such manner as they think fit.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words substituted by Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 (c. 43, SIF 82), Sch. 7 para. 9

Notes on the whole Act

Textual amendments

F1

Act repealed (6.1.1997) by S.I. 1996/3097, art. 2