Criminal Code (Cap. 9), article 670

670. (1) Any property which is to b e released by the registrar to any person or which is to be destroyed or otherwise disposed of in accordance with the provisions of this Title shall only be released, destroyed or otherwise disposed of following the draw ing up of a procès verbal containing an accurate description of the property released, the quantity and quality thereof and any photographs, video recordings and computer images of such property as the magistrate or the registrar may deem fit should be taken. (2) The procès-verbal shall be signed by the registrar and if the property is to be released, destroyed or disposed of during in genere proceedings or during the inquiry it shall also be signed by the magistrate. In every case wh ere the property is to be relea sed in favour of any person in the course of criminal proceedings whic h have not been finally determined that property shall only be so released after the person to whom the property is to be release d gives an undertaking in writing to produce again such property on the order of a court. (3) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Code or of any other law, any process-verbal d rawn up in accordance with the provisions of this article including any photographs, video recordings and computer images shall be admissible in evidence in any criminal proceedings as if it were the property itself desc ribed in the procès-verbal . (4) The provisions of this Title shall also mutatis mutandis apply to any property exhibited in the course of any proceeding s under the provisions of Title II of Part II of Book Second of t his Code even during such period that the relative procès-verbal is with the Attorney General. (5) The provisions of this article shall mutatis mutandis apply to property disposed of in acco rdance with the provisions of articles 671, 672 and 673. 408 CAP . 9.] CRIMINAL CODE Prohibited property. Substituted by: III.2002.155.