Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

ANTARCTIC TREATY (ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION) ACT 1980 - SECT 18

             (1)  An inspector may seize any article that he or she reasonably believes to have been involved in the commission of an offence against this Act and may retain it until the expiration of a period of 60 days after the seizure or, if proceedings for an offence against this Act in the commission of which it may have been involved are commenced within that period, until the proceedings (including any appeal) are completed.

             (2)  An inspector may seize any animal, plant, virus, bacterium, yeast or fungus that he or she reasonably believes to have been involved in the commission of an offence against this Act.

             (3)  Where anything has been seized under subsection (2), the Minister may cause it to be retained or disposed of and, if it was not involved in the commission of an offence against this Act, any person who has suffered loss or damage by reason of the seizure is entitled to reasonable compensation.