Border Protection Legislation Amendment Act 1999 (160 of 1999)

Schedule 2   Customs Act 1901

Part 1   Chasing, boarding etc. ships and aircraft

37   After subsection 219L(1B)

Insert:

(1C) If:

(a) a person has boarded a Customs vessel or Commonwealth ship for a purpose connected with the conduct of a search or the exercise of any other power under section 185; and

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

the detention officer may detain the person for the purpose of being searched under this Subdivision.