New South Wales Consolidated Acts New South Wales Consolidated ActsWhosoever offers for sale any article unlawfully taken, or reasonably
suspected to have been so taken, from any vessel in distress, or wrecked,
stranded, or cast on shore, and who, on being summoned before the Local Court,
fails to satisfy them that he or she came lawfully by such article, or
received the same without knowing or having cause to suspect that it had been
so taken as aforesaid, shall be liable to imprisonment for six months, or to
pay a fine of 5 penalty units, or both.
And such article shall, by the order of the Local Court, be delivered to or
for the use of the owner upon payment of a reasonable reward, to be
ascertained by them, to the person who seized the same.