Border Security Legislation Amendment Act 2002 (64 of 2002)

Schedule 5   Reporting of mail

Customs Act 1901

2   Section 63A

Insert:

mail , in relation to a ship or aircraft, means:

(a) any goods consigned through the Post Office that are carried on the ship or aircraft; and

(b) any other correspondence carried on the ship or aircraft that is not consigned as cargo and that is not accompanied personal or household effects of a passenger or member of the crew.

Note: Correspondence covered by paragraph (b) would include, for example, an airline’s inter-office correspondence that is carried on one of the airline’s aircraft and that is not consigned as cargo.