Excise Amendment (Compliance Improvement) Act 2000 (115 of 2000)

Schedule 1   Amendment of the Excise Act 1901

45   After section 87

Insert:

87AA Searches of conveyances without warrant

An officer may, without warrant, stop and search a conveyance for tobacco leaf or excisable goods if the officer has reasonable grounds for believing that:

(a) tobacco leaf or excisable goods are in or on the conveyance; and

(b) the conveyance has been used, is being used or is intended to be used in the commission of an offence against a provision of the Excise Acts or section 5, 6, 7 or 86 of the Crimes Act 1914.