Border Protection Legislation Amendment Act 1999 (160 of 1999)

Schedule 2   Customs Act 1901

Part 1   Chasing, boarding etc. ships and aircraft

36   Paragraph 219L(1B)(b)

Repeal the paragraph, substitute:

(b) a detention officer suspects on reasonable grounds that a person who is on board the ship or aircraft is carrying on his or her body any weapon or thing that is capable of being used to inflict bodily injury on an officer conducting that search or exercising that other power; and

(c) in the case where the person is on board a ship - the ship:

(i) is an Australian ship that is outside the territorial sea of a foreign country; or

(ii) is a foreign ship that is on the landward side of the outer edge of Australia's territorial sea;