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Power to order restitution of stolen property.
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5.—(1) If it shall be made to appear to a District Justice that any goods or money which were or were alleged to have been stolen or fraudulently obtained are in the custody of any member of the Dublin Metropolitan Police or the Gárda Síochána and that the person by whom the same were or were alleged to have been stolen or fraudulently obtained either—
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(a) cannot be found; or
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(b) has been tried, whether summarily or on indictment, and acquitted and no other person is charged with having stolen or fraudulently obtained the same; or
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(c) has been summarily convicted; or
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(d) has been tried on indictment and convicted, but the goods or money aforesaid shall not have been included in the indictment;
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the District Justice may order such goods or money to be delivered to the rightful owner thereof, or, in case such owner cannot be found, may make such order in respect of such goods or money as may seem meet.
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(2) No order under this section shall be any bar to the right of any person to sue the person to whom any goods or money shall be delivered under such order and to recover such goods or money from him by action at law, so that such action shall be commenced within six months next after such order shall have been made.
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