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

64   Subsection 185A(7)

Repeal the subsection, substitute:

(7) In this section:

officer has the meaning given by subsection 4(1), and includes:

(a) any person who is in command, or a member of the crew, of:

(i) a Commonwealth ship or Commonwealth aircraft referred to in section 184A in relation to the boarding under that section of a ship; or

(ii) a ship that was used under section 184B to chase the ship in relation to which this section applies; and

(b) a police officer; and

(c) a member of the Australian Defence Force.