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ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION ACT 1999 - SECT 444E Consignment of specimen with consent of owner

ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION ACT 1999 - SECT 444E

Consignment of specimen with consent of owner

  (1)   If:

  (a)   a specimen is seized under section   444A; and

  (b)   the specimen was imported from a particular foreign country; and

  (c)   the export of the specimen from the foreign country was not in contravention of a law of the foreign country that corresponds to Part   13A; and

  (d)   if the importer had applied for a permit authorising the import of the specimen, there is no reasonable likelihood that the permit would have been granted; and

  (e)   the importer produces written evidence from the relevant CITES authority of the foreign country that the specimen may be returned to the foreign country without contravening such a law;

the Secretary may, with the consent of the owner of the specimen, consign the specimen to a place in the foreign country.

  (2)   The consignment is to be at the expense of the owner of the specimen.

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