- (a) seize the vehicle or vehicle component and take it to a holding yard; or
- (b) require the owner or person in charge of the vehicle or vehicle component to take the vehicle or component (as the case may be) to and surrender it at a specified holding yard.
(2) The power conferred on an authorised officer under subsection (1)(a) may be exercised whether or not the owner or person in charge of the vehicle or vehicle component is present at the time of its seizure.
(3) When a vehicle or vehicle component is seized under this section by an authorised officer, the authorised officer concerned must, as soon as practicable, give notice of the seizure and the grounds of doing so to the owner of the vehicle or component (if known) except that the notice is not required to be given where the seizure is made in the presence of the owner or the owner’s agent.
(4) A person who, without reasonable excuse, refuses or neglects to comply with any requirement under subsection (1)(b) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $1,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months or to both.
Offence of non-compliance, etc.
12.—(1) A person commits an offence if the person—
- (a) without prior permission of an authorised officer, opens, breaks, alters or removes any mark, lock, seal or other safeguard used to secure a package, box, container or other thing under section 10(1)(a)(ii) or (g)(ii); or
- (b) without reasonable excuse, fails to do anything required of the person by an authorised officer under section 10(1).
(2) A person commits an offence if the person intentionally alters, suppresses or destroys any document or information which the person has been required by an authorised officer under section 10(1)(i) to provide.
