Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

RADIOCOMMUNICATIONS ACT 1992 - SECT 180

  (1)   If the owner of equipment agrees, in accordance with section   179, to forfeit the equipment to the Commonwealth:

  (a)   the ACMA may take possession of the equipment; and

  (b)   if the ACMA does so--the ACMA must give the owner a receipt for the equipment taken into possession.

  (2)   If:

  (a)   the ACMA has purported to take possession of equipment under subsection   (1); and

  (b)   the ACMA was not entitled to take possession of the equipment under that subsection;

the ACMA must take all reasonable steps to return the equipment to the owner of the equipment.