Customs Legislation Amendment (Airport, Port and Cargo Security) Act 2004 (111 of 2004)

Schedule 2   Questioning passengers etc. and persons found in restricted places

Customs Act 1901

1   After section 195

Insert:

195A Power to question persons found in restricted areas

If a person is in a section 234AA place, an officer may ask the person for, and require the person to provide:

(a) the person’s name; and

(b) the person’s reason for being in the section 234AA place; and

(c) evidence of the person’s identity.

Note: Failing to answer a question or produce a document when required to do so by an officer may be an offence (see sections 243SA and 243SB). However, a person does not have to answer if doing so would tend to incriminate the person (see section 243SC).