Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00034:section:262
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00034
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 262
Character Range: 414175–414870

262  Effect of refusing applications for restraining orders or forfeiture orders
  If:
 (a) a thing has been seized under a *search warrant, or under section 251, on the ground that a person believes on reasonable grounds that it is *tainted property; and
 (b) an application is made for a *restraining order or a *forfeiture order that would cover the thing; and
 (c) the application is refused; and
 (d) at the time when the application is refused, the thing is in the possession of the *responsible custodian;
the *responsible custodian must arrange for the thing to be returned to the person from whose possession it was seized as soon as practicable after the refusal.

Division 4—General