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(1) Where goods remain on board an importing conveyance beyond seven days after the arrival of the conveyance, or beyond a further time that the proper officer may allow, the proper officer shall detain the conveyance until the following expenses are paid:

(a) expenses for guarding the goods beyond the seven days or further time, if any, allowed, and

(b) expenses of removing the goods to a State warehouse, where the proper officer removes the goods.

(2) Where it is necessary for the protection of revenue to assign an officer to a derelict or other conveyance coming into the country under legal process, by stress of weather or for safety reasons, a charge of not more than twenty penalty units per day shall be made, so long as the officer is assigned.

(3) Where an officer boards a conveyance and finds goods on the conveyance, and after leaving the conveyance the officer or any other officer boards the conveyance and finds the goods have been unlawfully unloaded, the master shall incur a penalty of not less than four hundred penalty units and not more than one thousand two hundred penalty units.

(4) Where a master does not bring a conveyance that is liable to seizure or examination under this Act or fails to allow the conveyance to remain for the period that the boarding officer requires, the master shall incur a penalty of not less than four hundred penalty units and not more than one thousand two hundred penalty units.