Customs Amendment (Enhanced Border Controls and Other Measures) Act 2009 (34 of 2009)

Schedule 9   Seizing unaccounted for goods and storing or taking custody of prohibited items

Customs Act 1901

7   Section 227D

Repeal the section, substitute:

227D Items to which this Part applies

This Part applies to any thing if:

(a) it is on board a ship or an aircraft to which this Part applies; and

(b) its importation is:

(i) prohibited absolutely by the Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations 1956; or

(ii) prohibited by those regulations unless a licence, permission, consent, approval or other document (however described) is granted or given, and such a licence, permission, consent, approval or other document has not been granted or given; and

(c) either:

(i) it is, or should have been, specified in a report given by the operator under section 64AAA as part of the stores of the ship or aircraft; or

(ii) it is part of the personal effects of the crew of the ship or aircraft.