s. 490
Detention of things seized
Rules for the detention, return, and forfeiture of seized property.
View official sourcePlain-language explanation
Section 490 governs how long police can detain seized things and the process for extending detention, returning, or forfeiting them.
Legal elements
- • Lawful seizure
- • Timely report to a justice
- • Periodic detention orders or return
Investigator notes
- • Critical in crypto and digital asset fraud files where assets are restrained.
Section text
Subject to this or any other Act of Parliament, where, pursuant to a warrant issued under section 487 or 487.1, anything has been seized or anything has been seized without a warrant…