Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

1993 No. 279 CHARTER OF THE UNITED NATIONS (SANCTIONS) REGULATIONS - REG 9

9. (1) The Minister for Foreign Affairs must investigate whether a vehicle, or
cargo, that has been seized under regulation 6 has been used in a manner that
violates a sanctions resolution.

(2) The Minister must investigate the vehicle or cargo as soon as practicable
after it has been seized.

(3) If, after investigating a vehicle referred to in paragraph 5 (1) (a), the
Minister does not believe that the vehicle has been used in a manner that
violates a sanctions resolution, control of the vehicle or the cargo must be
restored, as soon as practicable after the end of the sanctions period, to the
person who controlled it immediately before it was seized.

(4) If, after investigating a vehicle, or cargo, referred to in paragraph 5
(1) (b), the Minister does not believe that the vehicle or the cargo has been
used in a manner that violates a sanctions resolution, control of the vehicle
or the cargo must be restored, as soon as practicable, to the person who
controlled it immediately before it was seized.

(5) In subregulation (3), the sanctions period is the period:

   (a)  beginning on 26 April 1993; and

   (b)  ending on the day on which Article 25 of the Charter of the United
        Nations ceases to require Australia to carry out Operative Paragraphs
        24 and 25 of United Nations Security Council Resolution No. 820 (1993)
        adopted on 17 April 1993.