Crimes Act 1914

A police officer who is for the time being responsible for a thing seized under section 3UE or 3UEA must, within 7 days after the day on which the thing was seized, serve a seizure notice on:

the owner of the thing; or

if the owner of the thing cannot be identified after reasonable inquiries—the person from whom the thing was seized.

Subsection (1) does not apply if:

both:

the owner of the thing cannot be identified after reasonable inquiries; and

the thing was not seized from a person; or

it is not possible to serve the person required to be served under subsection (1).

A seizure notice must:

identify the thing; and

state the date on which the thing was seized; and

state the ground or grounds on which the thing was seized; and

state that, if the owner does not request the return of the thing within 90 days after the date of the notice, the thing is forfeited to the Commonwealth.

A thing is forfeited to the Commonwealth if the owner of the thing does not request its return:

before the end of the 90th day after the date of the seizure notice in relation to the thing; or

if subsection (2) applied in relation to the thing so that a seizure notice was not served—before the end of the 90th day after the day on which the thing was seized.