Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

GENE TECHNOLOGY ACT 2000 - SECT 171

    If:

  (a)   a thing is seized under this Part; and

  (b)   apart from this section, the Commonwealth is required to return the thing to the owner; and

  (c)   there is no owner or the Regulator cannot, despite making reasonable efforts, locate the owner;

the Regulator may dispose of the thing in such manner as the Regulator thinks appropriate.