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

Schedule 9   Other application and transitional provisions

5   Secrecy - protected information

(1) Part 6 of the Australian Border Force Act 2015 applies in relation to the making of a record of, or the disclosure of, information on or after the commencement of this item, whether the information was obtained before, on or after that commencement.

(2) A person who was, at any time before the commencement of this item, a person to whom section 16 of the Customs Administration Act 1985 applied is taken, on and after that commencement, to be an entrusted person for the purposes of the Australian Border Force Act 2015.

(3) Any information that, before the commencement of this item, was protected information for the purposes of section 16 of the Customs Administration Act 1985 is taken, on and after that commencement, to be protected information for the purposes of the Australian Border Force Act 2015.


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