Section 180Part 6 — Forfeiture of Cash and Property
Code of practice
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The Cabinet shall, upon the recommendation of the Commissioner of Police and the Director of Customs and Border Control , prepare a code of practice as to the exercise by the Director, officers of the Authority, constables and customs officers of functions under this Part.
After preparing a draft of the code the Cabinet shall publish the draft and consider any representations made to it about the draft; and it may thereafter amend the draft accordingly.
The Cabinet shall bring the code into operation on such day as it may appoint by order.
A person specified in subsection (1) shall comply with a code of practice which is in operation under this section in the exercise of any function that person has under this Part; and where such a person fails t o comply with any provision of such a code of practice that person is not by reason only of that failure liable in any criminal or civil proceedings.
Notwithstanding subsection (4), the code of practice is admissible in evidence in criminal or civil pr oceedings and a court may take account of any failure to comply with its provisions in determining any question in the proceedings.
The Cabinet may from time to time revise a code previously brought into operation under this section; and the preceding provisions of this section apply to a revised code as they apply to the code as first prepared. Interpretation