Part 6Administrative provisions
Administrative powers
119Power to seize abandoned goods
An inspector or authorised person may seize and may treat or dispose of any abandoned organism (where necessary disabling or killing it first) or any abandoned conveyance, craft, or goods that are reasonably suspected by the inspector or authorised person of containing or harbouring any pest or unwanted organism.
An inspector or authorised person is entitled to regard as abandoned any organism or goods that appear to the inspector or authorised person, after making such inquiries as are reasonable in the circumstances, to have been abandoned or have no apparent or readily identifiable owner.
Compare
- 1969 No 53 s 10
Notes
- Section 119(1): amended, on , by section 47 of the Biosecurity Law Reform Act 2012 (2012 No 73).