Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00022:section:417
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00022
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 417
Character Range: 687348–688213

417  Person complying with direction or request must not damage or destroy goods
 (1) This section applies to a person if:
 (a) the Secretary or an authorised officer directs or requests the person to do a thing in relation to goods for the purposes of this Act; and
 (b) the person is not:
 (i) the owner of the goods; or
 (ii) a person (other than an authorised officer) who is in possession or control of the goods.

Civil penalty provision
 (2) The person is liable to a civil penalty if:
 (a) in complying with the direction or request, the person engages in conduct that causes the goods to be damaged or destroyed; and
 (b) either:
 (i) the person did not act in good faith in engaging in that conduct; or
 (ii) the damage or destruction was not a reasonable or necessary result of complying with the direction or request.
Civil penalty: 120 penalty units.