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1) When the offender is convicted or when the person charged with an offence against this Act is discharged or acquitted, and the Court decides that any conveyance is liable to confiscation, such confiscation may be ordered by the Court.
(2) When an offence against this Act has been committed but the offender is not known or cannot be found and any conveyance is used in the commission of such offence, or when any conveyance is liable to confiscation under this Act and not in the possession of any person cannot be satisfactorily accounted for, the case shall be enquired into and determined by such officer as may be authorised by the Central Government in this behalf, who may on seizure thereof, order such confiscation
Provided that no such order of confiscation shall be made until the ex- piration of thirty days from the date of the seizure of the conveyance in- tended to be confiscated or without hearing the persons, if any, claiming any right thereto, and evidence, if any, which they produce in support of their case.]