Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00486:section:107fb
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00486
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 107FB
Character Range: 224429–225360

107FB  Requirement to serve seizure notices
 (1) After goods have been seized under a seizure warrant or section 9 of the Crimes Act 1914, the officer in charge of the investigation must serve, within 7 days after the seizure, a seizure notice on:
 (a) the owner of the goods; or
 (b) if the owner cannot be identified after reasonable inquiry—the person in whose possession or under whose control the goods were when they were seized.
 (2) Subsection (1) applies whether or not a claim for the return of the goods seized has been made under section 107FD.
 (3) The notice must be in writing and must be served:
 (a) personally or by post; or
 (b) if no person of the kind referred to in subsection (1) can be identified after reasonable inquiry—by publishing a copy of the notice in a newspaper circulating in the location in which the goods were seized.
 (4) A seizure notice may be served on a person who is outside Australia.