Customs Amendment Regulation 2012 (No. 1)1

Select Legislative Instrument 2012 No. 49

I, QUENTIN BRYCE, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulation under the Customs Act 1901.

Dated 19 April 2012

QUENTIN BRYCE

Governor-General

By Her Excellency’s Command

JASON CLARE

Minister for Home Affairs

1 Name of regulation

  This regulation is the Customs Amendment Regulation 2012 (No. 1).

2 Commencement

  This regulation commences on the day after it is registered.

3 Amendment of Customs Regulations 1926

  Schedule 1 amends the Customs Regulations 1926.

4 Transitional

  Regulations 176AA and 176B of the Customs Regulations 1926, as in force immediately before this regulation commenced, continue to apply in relation to the records of an external search of a detainee made before this regulation commenced.

Schedule 1 Amendments

(section 3)

[1] Regulation 176AA

substitute

176AA Equipment for scans or searches

  For subsections 219SA (1), 219ZAB (1) and (2) of the Act, the table describes the equipment for carrying out a scan or search.

[2] Regulation 176B, heading

substitute

176B Storage of records of an external search or an internal non-medical scan

[3] Subregulation 176B (1)

substitute

 (1) For section 219ZAE of the Act, this regulation applies to the search record of an external search or an internal non‑medical scan of a detainee under section 219R or 219SA of the Act.

[4] Subparagraph 176B (4) (c)

omit

records are

insert

search record is

[5] Subregulation 176B (5)

substitute

 (5) In this regulation:

search record, of an external search or an internal non-medical scan of a detainee, means:

 (a) a videotape or other electronic record of the external search of the detainee mentioned in paragraph 219ZAE (1) (a) of the Act ; and

 (b) a photograph or image mentioned in paragraph 219ZAE (1) (b) or (c) of the Act, relating to the detainee; and

 (c) a sample from the outer surface of the detainee’s hand mentioned in paragraph 219ZAE (1) (d).

[6] Further amendments

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