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Food Safety and Security Act 2025 · Updated to 1 Jul 2026 · Part 13 · Monitoring and Enforcement

251. Detaining food, food contact article, etc., seized

(1)

Where any relevant material or other thing has been seized by an investigator under section 250, the investigator may require the relevant material or thing —

(a)

to be detained at the place or premises where the investigator seized it; or

(b)

to be removed to another place or premises and detained there.

(2)

Any relevant material or other thing required under subsection (1) to be detained or removed and detained must be detained or removed and detained (as the case may be) at the cost of —

(a)

the owner of the relevant material or other thing at the time it was seized; or

(b)

if the investigator does not know who the owner is, the person who possessed the relevant material or other thing at the time it was seized.

Read on from s 252

Part 14