Section 342: Restitution of stolen property

(1) Where a defendant is convicted of an offence relating to property, the court convicting him may order that the property or a part of it, be restored to the person who appears to it to be the owner of it, either on payment or without payment by the owner, to the person in whose possession the property or a part of it then is, of any sum named in the order.
(2) This section does not apply to:
(a) a valuable security which has been paid or discharged in good faith by a person liable to pay or discharge the instrument; or
(b) a negotiable instrument which has been received in good faith by transfer or delivery by a person for a just and valuable consideration without notice or without any reasonable cause to suspect that it had been stolen.