Border Security Legislation Amendment Act 2002 (64 of 2002)

Schedule 8   Vessel monitoring systems

Fisheries Management Act 1991

1   After section 167A

Insert:

167B AFMA may give information about boats to Customs

(1) This section applies if AFMA has any information relating to boats that AFMA got by means of a vessel monitoring system (see subsection (4)).

(2) AFMA may give information of that kind to the Australian Customs Service ( Customs ) if AFMA, having had regard to any advice received from Customs, considers that giving Customs the information would help Customs to perform a function or activity of Customs that relates to civil surveillance.

(3) This section does not, by implication, affect any other power of AFMA to give information.

(4) In this section:

vessel monitoring system means a system in which boats are fitted with an electronic device that can give information about the boats’ course or position, or other such information.