Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) After goods have been seized under a seizure warrant or section 9 of the Crimes Act 1914 , the officer in charge of the investigation must serve, within 7 days after the seizure, a seizure 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 seized.
(2) Subsection (1) applies whether or not a claim for the return of the goods seized has been made under section 107FD.
(3) 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 subsection (1) 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 seized.
(4) A seizure notice may be served on a person who is outside Australia.