Seizing things, procedure on
43G Seizing things, procedure on
If a licensing officer seizes any thing under this Division, the officer must give the person who was in possession of it a receipt for it in the approved form.
If a licensing officer seizes any thing under this Division, the officer must if practicable allow a person who is otherwise entitled to possession of it to have reasonable access to it.
A licensing officer who seizes any thing under this Division may take reasonable measures to prevent the thing being concealed, lost, damaged or destroyed.
If it is not practicable to move any thing that has been seized, a licensing officer may do whatever is reasonably necessary to secure it where it is situated and to notify people that it is under seizure.
A person must not, without a licensing officer’s approval, interfere or deal with any thing that the person knows, or ought reasonably to know, has been seized by a licensing officer.
Penalty: a fine of $12 000.
[Section 43G inserted: No. 38 of 2011 s. 26.]
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