(3) 10. (d) upon the order of a competent court. (a) For the purpose of effecting the release of goods in terms of subsection (1) (b) or (2) (a), (b) or (c), the inspector who had seized those goods in terms of section 4 (1) must issue a notice to the person in charge of the counterfeit goods depot where those goods are detained, directing that the relevant goods, as specified in the copy of the inventory attached to that notice, be released to the person specified therein, and at the same time cause a copy of that notice to be served on the suspect and on the complainant. (b) The person in control of a counterfeit goods depot to whom a notice has been issued in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (a), must release the relevant goods in accordance with that notice, on the fourth day after the date of that notice, unless a competent court has ordered otherwise. Other orders that may be issued by court (1) (2) Without derogating from the powers of a court in any civil or criminal proceedings relating to counterfeit goods, such a court may order(a) that the goods in question, where they have been found to be counterfeit goods, be delivered up to the owner of the intellectual property right the subject matter of which has been unlawfully applied to those goods, or up to any complainant deriving his or her title from that owner, irrespective of the outcome of the proceedings; (b) that those goods be released to any person specified in the order; (c) that the complainant pays damages, in an amount determined by the court, to the person from whom those goods were seized and pays that person's costs; (d) that the accused or the defendant or respondent (as the case may be) discloses the source from which those goods, if found to be counterfeit goods, have been obtained, as well as the identity of the persons involved or ostensibly involved in the importation, exportation, manufacture, production or making, and the distribution, of the counterfeit goods and in the channels of distribution of those goods. If a court in any civil or criminal proceedings has ordered the delivery up to any person of goods found to be counterfeit goods derived from any process of counterfeiting contemplated in paragraph (b) or (c) of the definition of 'counterfeiting' in section 1 (1), then, notwithstanding the provisions of any law, those goods(a) may not be released into the channels of commerce upon the mere removal of the subject matter of the intellectual property right that was unlawfully applied to those goods;

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