Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2008A00074:clause:1_209w
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2008A00074
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 209W
Character Range: 10700–11498

209W  Requirement to serve detention notice

 (1) If an officer of Customs detains goods under section 209U, the officer must serve, within 7 days after the day on which the goods were detained, a detention 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 detained.

 (2) 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 paragraph (1)(a) or (b) 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 detained.

 (3) A detention notice may be served on a person who is outside Australia.