(1) When any person is convicted of having stolen or dishonestly obtained any property, and it appears to the Court that the property has been pawned to a pawnbroker or other person, the Court may order the delivery of the property to the person who appears to the Court to be the owner, either on payment or without payment to the pawnbroker or other person of the amount of the loan or any part of it as the Court may consider just having regard to all the circumstances of the case.
(2) If the person in whose favour an order is made under subsection (1), pays the money involved to the pawnbroker or other person and obtains the property, he or she shall not afterwards question the validity of the pawn and to that extent, the order shall have no other effect than the change of possession in respect of the goods and shall not in any way affect any right of action existing or acquired in respect of the goods before or after the crime was committed.
(3) Nothing in this section shall prevent the Court from ordering the return to any person charged with a crime, or to any person named by the Court, of any property found in the possession of the person so charged, or in the possession of any other person for him or her, or of any portion of such property, if in the opinion of the Court the interest of justice will best be served by the return of such property or a portion of it to the person so charged.