Border Protection Legislation Amendment Act 1999 (160 of 1999)

Schedule 1   Migration Act 1958

Part 1   Chasing, boarding etc. ships and aircraft

3   Subsection 251(1)

Repeal the subsection, substitute:

(1) An officer may at any time board and search a vessel if:

(a) section 245F does not apply to the vessel; and

(b) the officer reasonably suspects there is on board the vessel:

(i) an unlawful non-citizen; or

(ii) a person seeking to enter the migration zone who would, if in the migration zone, be an unlawful non-citizen.