Customs and Other Legislation Amendment (Australian Border Force) Act 2015 (41 of 2015)

Schedule 1   Amendments of Customs Act

Part 1   Amendments

Customs Act 1901

14   Subsection 4(1)

Insert:

officer of Customs means:

(a) the Secretary of the Department; or

(b) the Australian Border Force Commissioner (including in his or her capacity as the Comptroller-General of Customs); or

(c) an APS employee in the Department; or

(d) a person authorised under subsection (1B) to exercise all the powers and perform all the functions of an officer of Customs; or

(e) a person who from time to time holds, occupies, or performs the duties of an office or position (whether or not in or for the Commonwealth) specified under subsection (1C), even if the office or position does not come into existence until after it is so specified; or

(f) in relation to a provision of a Customs Act:

(i) a person authorised under subsection (1D) to exercise the powers or perform the functions of an officer of Customs for the purposes of that provision; or

(ii) a person who from time to time holds, occupies, or performs the duties of an office or position (whether or not in or for the Commonwealth) specified under subsection (1E) in relation to that provision, even if the office or position does not come into existence until after it is so specified.


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