On 20/05/2013,
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incorporating all amendments published on or before 20/05/2013.
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—(1) The Magistrate’s Court on being satisfied of the truth of the information shall issue a warrant addressed to the Commissioner of Police or to any police officer requiring him forthwith to dispossess and remove that person from the land, and on behalf of the State to take possession of the land, together with all crops growing thereon, and all buildings and other immovable property upon and affixed thereto, and all movable property found thereon.
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(2) The person to whom the warrant is addressed shall forthwith carry it into execution.
(3) Such warrant shall not issue until a period of 48 hours has elapsed from the time of adjudication.
(4) The Government may forfeit any movable property which has been seized on the land pursuant to the execution of a warrant referred to in subsection (1) if such movable property has been seized after the expiry of a period of 28 days from the date of service of a written notice on the unlawful occupants of the land requiring them to vacate the land and warning them that if any movable property thereon is not so removed within 28 days of the date of service of the notice that property may be seized and forfeited to the Government.
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(5) If the summons is dismissed, the Magistrate’s Court may order payment by the Government to the party against whom it was issued of such sum as the Court considers to be the amount of costs fairly incurred.