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(1) Where the Executive Director or a police officer above the rank of Assistant Commissioner of Police, reasonably suspects that immovable property is connected to a serious offence or is tainted property liable to seizure, the Executive Director or the police officer shall complete an immovable property seizure notice as in Form 8 of the Second Schedule.

(2) Upon causing the seizure of immovable property, the Executive Director or police officer shall, where appropriate, cause an inventory of the fixtures in or on the seized property to be taken.

(3) The inventory taken by the Executive Director shall be as in Form 9 of the Second Schedule and shall be filed at the Office.

(4)The seizure of the immovable property, where possible, shall be effected

(a)  by posting  a copy of the seizure notice in  a  conspicuous position  on the immovable property;

(b) by  lodging  a copy of the seizure notice at the Lands Com- mission; and

(c) by the publication in a newspaper of national circulation, electronic media and on the official website of   the Office.

(5)  The Registrar of Lands shall make an entry in the appropriate register of the terms of the seizure notice   of the immovable property.

(6) The entry in the register freezes the immovable property and any subsequent transaction in respect of the immovable property shall not be registered whether it was lodged before or after the lodgement of the notice of seizure or the making of the entry.