(3) 1[If on adjudication or, as the case may be, in case of appeal the vehicle or, as the case may
be, an article so sold is found not to have been liable to such confiscation, the entire sale proceeds
shall be handed over to the owner.]
(4) A narcotic drug, psychotropic substance or controlled substance seized under this Act shall be
disposed of under section 516A of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (Act V of 1898).
34. Federal Narcotics Testing Laboratory, etc.__(1) The Federal Government may, as soon as
may be after the commencement of this Act, set‑up a Federal Narcotic Testing Laboratory and such
other institutes and narcotics testing research laboratories or notify any other laboratory or institute to
be a Federal Narcotics Testing Laboratory for carrying out the purposes of this Act.
(2) The Provincial Government may, wherever deems appropriate, set‑up Provincial Narcotics
Testing Laboratories.
35. Government Analyst. The Federal Government or a Provincial Government may, by
notification in the official Gazette, appoint such persons as it thinks fit, having the prescribed
qualifications, to be Federal Government Analysts or, as the case may be, Provincial Government
Analysts, for such areas and in respect of such narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances or controlled
substances as may be specified in the notification.
36. Reports of Government Analysts.__(1) The Government Analyst to whom a sample of any
narcotic drugs, psychotropic substance or controlled substance has been submitted for test and
analysis shall deliver to the person submitting it, a signed report in quadruplicate in the prescribed
form and forward one copy thereof to such authority as may be prescribed.
(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, any
document purporting to be a report signed by a Government Analyst shall be admissible as evidence
of the facts stated therein without formal proof and such evidence shall, unless rebutted, be
conclusive.
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CHAPTER IV
FREEZING AND FORFEITURE OF ASSETS
37. Freezing of assets, etc.__(1) Where the Special Court trying an offence punishable under this
Act is satisfied that there appear reasonable grounds for believing that the accused has committed
such an offence, it may order the freezing of assets of the accused, his relatives and associates.
1 Subs. by Ord. 66 of 2000, s. 2.
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