WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1988
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OWNER LIABLE FOR COSTS UNDER AMENDMENT BILL
THE
A BILL MAKING A PERSON CONVICTED OF AN OFFENCE RELATING TO
FOR THE COSTS TRANSPORTATION OF DANGEROUS GOODS BY AIR RESPONSIBLE
INTO INCURRED IN THE SEIZURE AND STORAGE OF SUCH GOODS WAS INTRODUCED THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
THE FINANCIAL
SECRETARY,
THE HON PIERS JACOBS, TOLD THE ORDINANCE, COUNCIL THE DANGEROUS GOODS (CONSIGNMENT BY AIR) (SAFETY)
TO SEIZE, ENACTED IN 1985, EMPOWERED THE DIRECTOR OF CIVIL AVIATION
RESPECT TO WHICH HE SUSPECTED REMOVE AND DETAIN ANYTHING WITH OFFENCE UNDER THE ORDINANCE HAD BEEN COMMITTED.
AN
HOWEVER, THE ORDINANCE DID NOT REQUIRE THE OWNER OF THE GOODS TO BE LIABLE FOR PAYMENT OF COSTS ASSOCIATED OR STORAGE OF THE GOODS IN QUESTION.
SEIZED WITH THE SEIZURE
ANY EXPENSES INCURRED HAD TO BE BORNE BY THE
FROM WHOSE CUSTODY
GOVERNMENT,
OR
THE POSSESSION
EVEN GOODS WERR
IF THE PERSON, REMOVED, WAS CONVICTED.
PRINCIPLE THAT
EXPENSES ARISING
IN "IT IS WRONG COMMISSION OF A CRIMINAL OFFENCE SHOULD BE A CHARGE ON PUBLIC HE SAID.
FROM
THE FUNDS,"
GOODS (CONSIGNMENT MOVING THE SECOND READING OF THE DANGEROUS
THE BILL, IF BY AIR) (SAFETY) (AMENDMENT) BILL 1988, MR JACOBS SAID
THE PERSON CONVICTED ENACTED, WOULD RECTIFY THE SITUATION BY MAKING
ΤΟ AND FOR THOSE EXPENSES RESPONSIBLE FOR THE COSTS RECOVERABLE AS A CIVIL DEBT.
INCURRED
BE
WERE
ALTHOUGH NO SIGNIFICANT EXPENDITURE HAD BEEN INCURRED
ORDINANCE, THE ENACTMENT ACTION SINCE CONCEIVABLE THAT COSTS COULD BE CONSIDERABLE IF
AND GOODS OF DANGEROUS GOVERNMENT'S EXPENSE.
OF THE
SAID,
SEIZED
HAD
ΤΟ
IN SUCH HE
IT WAS A LARGE CONSIGNMENT
BE
AT STORED
THE
THE PRINCIPAL ORDINANCE HAD BEEN ENACTED TO ESTABLISH
AND
OF SUPERVISION FRAMEWORK FOR THE REGULATION DANGEROUS GOODS BY AIR, HE ADDED.
A LEGAL
THE
TRANSPORT OF
DEBATE ON THE BILL WAS ADJOURNED.
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