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Section 53

Cost of holding seized document, etc.

of Energy Efficiency and Conservation Act 2024

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Section 53

Where any document, record, computerized data, digitalized data, plan, drawing, material, plant, equipment, machinery, goods, energy-using product, product, label, item or thing seized under this

Act is held in the custody of the Government or the Commission pending completion of any proceedings in respect of an offence under this Act, the cost of holding such document, record, computerized data, digitalized data, plan, drawing, material, plant, equipment, machinery, goods, energy-using product, product, label, item or thing in custody shall, in the event of any person being found guilty of an offence, be a debt due to the Government or the Commission, as the case may be, by such person and shall be recoverable accordingly.