Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(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.