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

63   After subsection 185A(2)

Insert:

(2A) If one or more officers (other than officers who are members of the Australian Defence Force) board a ship under this section, the most senior of those officers who is an officer of Customs must:

(a) if requested to do so by the master of the ship; and

(b) as soon as reasonably practicable after boarding;

produce, for inspection by the master, written evidence of the fact that the officer is an officer within the meaning of this section.

(2B) If the officer fails to produce the evidence mentioned in subsection (2AA), no officer may remain on board the ship.