Customs Amendment (Enhanced Border Controls and Other Measures) Act 2009 (34 of 2009)

Schedule 5   Boarding powers and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

Customs Act 1901

62   Subsection 185A(1)

Repeal the subsection, substitute:

(1) This section applies to a ship if:

(a) the ship may be boarded under subsection 184A(8) (boarding a ship of a country with which Australia has an agreement), and the ship is:

(i) outside the outer edge of the contiguous zone of Australia; and

(ii) outside the territorial sea of any country (including Australia); or

(b) the ship may be boarded under subsection 184A(9) (boarding a ship without nationality), and the ship is outside the territorial sea of a foreign country.