Prevention of Organised Crime Act, 1998 (Act No. 121 of 1998)Chapter 6 : Civil Recovery of PropertyPart 3 : Forfeiture of Property51. Notice of reasonable grounds that property is concerned in commission of offence or associated with terrorist and related activities |
| (1) | The National Director may apply to a judge in chambers or a magistrate for an order notifying a person having an interest in or control over property that there are reasonable grounds to believe that such property is an instrumentality of an offence referred to in Schedule 1. |
| (2) | The judge or magistrate shall make an order referred to in subsection (1) if the judge or magistrate is satisfied that there are reasonable grounds to believe that the property concerned is an instrumentality of an offence referred to in Schedule 1 or property associated with terrorist and related activities. |
| (3) | When a judge or magistrate makes an order under subsection (1), the registrar of the High Court concerned or clerk of the Magistrate's Court for the district concerned shall issue a notice in the prescribed form to the person referred to in the order, informing him or her that there are reasonable grounds to believe that property in which he or she has an interest or over which he or she has control, is an instrumentality of an offence referred to in Schedule 1 or property associated with terrorist and related activities. |
| (4) | A notice issued under subsection (3) shall be served on the person concerned in the manner in which a summons whereby civil proceedings in the High Court are commenced is served. |
[Section 51 amended by section 27(1) of Act No. 33 of 2004]