CUSTOMS ADMINISTRATION ACT 1985 (REPEALED)

S 5 amended by No 85 of 1995, s 7 and Sch 5, effective 1 July 1995. S 17 of No 85 of 1995 provides as follows:

Transitional - Comptroller-General of Customs to become Chief Executive Officer of Customs  
17(1)
The person who is the Comptroller-General of Customs immediately before the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent is taken, on and after that day, for the purposes of section 5 of the Customs Administration Act 1985 , as amended by Schedule 5 of this Act, to have been appointed on that day by the Governor-General as the Chief Executive Officer of Customs for a period ending 5 years after that day.

17(2)
Except as expressly provided by this Act or by the Customs Administration Act 1985 as amended by Schedule 5 of this Act, the person taken to be appointed as the Chief Executive Office of Customs under subsection (1) holds office, until the Governor-General determines otherwise, on the same terms and conditions as he or she held office as the Comptroller-General of Customs.