Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A00789:clause:1_107fb
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A00789
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 107FB
Character Range: 35597–36533

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.