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(1)After theconclusion of a trial before any court-martial, the court or the officer confirmingthe finding or sentence of such court-martial or any authority superior to suchofficer, may make such order as it or he thinks fit for the disposal bydestruction, confiscation, delivery to any person, claiming to be entitled topossession thereof, or otherwise of any property or document produced before theCourt or in its custody, or regarding which any offence appears to have beencommitted or which has been used for the commission of any offence.
(2)Where anyorder has beenmade under sub-section (1)in respect of property regarding which an offence appears to have beencommitted, a copy of suchorder signed andcertified by the authority making the same may, whether the trial was heldwithin India or not, be sent to a magistrate within whose jurisdiction suchproperty for the time being is situated, and such Magistrate shall thereupon cause theorder to becarried into effect as if it were an orderpassed by himunder the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, or any corresponding law in force in 1 [the State of Jammuand Kashmir].
(3)In this section the term "property" includes, in the case of propertyregarding which an offence appears to have been committed, not only suchproperty as has been originally in the possession or under the control of anyperson, but also any property into or for which the same may have been convertedor exchanged, and anything acquired by such conversion or exchange whetherimmediately orotherwise.
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1.Substitutedfor the words "a Part BState" by 3A.L.O., 1956.