Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) If an authorised
officer seizes any thing under this Division, the officer must give the person
who was in possession of the thing a receipt for it in the approved form.
(2) If an authorised
officer seizes any thing under this Division, the officer must, if
practicable, allow a person who is otherwise entitled to possession of the
thing to have reasonable access to it.
(3) An authorised
officer who seizes any thing under this Division may take reasonable measures
to prevent the thing being concealed, lost, damaged or destroyed.
(4) If it is not
practicable to move a thing that has been seized under this Division, an
authorised officer may do whatever is reasonably necessary to secure the thing
where it is situated and to notify people that it is under seizure.
(5) A person must not,
without the approval of an authorised officer, interfere or deal with any
thing that the person knows, or ought reasonably to know, has been seized
under this Division by an authorised officer.
Penalty for this subsection: imprisonment for 12
months and a fine of $12 000.
[Section 34T inserted: No. 47 of 2022 s. 29.]