Section 20, LOCAL COURTS AСT, 1963

(1) Where upon the arrest of a person charged with an offence any property is taken from him, the Court before which he is charged may, if it thinks fit, order that the property or a part thereof be restored to him or to such other person as he may direct. (2) Where any person is convicted of having stolen or otherwise dishonestly or wrongfully obtained any property the Court convicting him may order that the property or a part thereof be restored to the person who appears to it to be the owner thereof, either on payment or without payment by the owner to the person in whose possession such property or a part thereof then is, of any sum named in such order. (3) Subsection (2) shall not apply to— (a) any valuable security which has been bona fide paid or discharged by any person liable to pay or discharge the same; or (b) any negotiable instrument which shall have been bona fide received by transfer or delivery by any person for a just and valuable consideration without notice, or without any reasonable cause to suspect, that it has been stolen or otherwise dishonestly obtained; or [Margin: 6 and 7 Geo. V Cap. 50.] (c) any offence against sections 20, 21 and 22 of the Larceny Act, 1916. (4) On the restitution of any stolen property if it appears to the Court by the evidence that the person convicted has sold the stolen property to any person, and that such person had no knowledge that the same was stolen and that any moneys have been taken from the person convicted on his apprehension under subsection (1), the Court may, on the application of such purchaser, order that out of such moneys a sum not exceeding the proceeds of such sale be delivered to such purchaser. [Margin: Witnesses.]