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1. On 30th April 1998, a team of customs officers raided the first respondent's premises where they found and seized among other things pirated video CD's and machines representing four set of production lines of video CD's ( "the Machines"). The Commissioner of customs and Excise ("the Commissioner" ) is seeking an order to forfeit the Machines or alternatively to impose conditions for the return of same to their owner. There is no dispute that the Machines are liable to forfeiture and that the