{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/serious-crime-act-2015/section-58",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/serious-crime-act-2015/section-58.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2015/9",
  "legislation_title": "Serious Crime Act 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/serious-crime-act-2015",
  "path": "section/58",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "58",
  "heading": "Containers",
  "text": "(1) An officer who seizes a substance under section 55 or 56 may also seize any container holding the substance.\n(2) If a container is seized under this section, reasonable efforts must be made to return it to—\n(a) the person from whom it was seized, or\n(b) (if different) a person to whom it belongs.\n(3) Subsection (2) does not apply—\n(a) if the container appears to be of negligible value,\n(b) if it is not practicable for the container to be returned, or\n(c) while the container is or may be needed for use as evidence at a trial for an offence.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 58 in force at 3.5.2015 by S.I. 2015/820, reg. 2(j)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2015/9/section/58",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:07:05.371498+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."
}