Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024A00061:clause:1_90z:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024A00061
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 90Z (pt 2/3)
Character Range: 29395–32068

Example: Assume the article contains one prohibited thing and one or more other things.
 Under paragraph (a), a permitted person may remove the prohibited thing and then close up the article (with the other things in it) and return it to the normal course of carriage.
 Under paragraph (b), a person included in a class of persons determined in an instrument under subsection (5) may destroy the prohibited thing in compliance with that paragraph.
 Under paragraph (c), a permitted person may arrange for the article and all of its contents to be delivered as mentioned in that paragraph.

Class of persons
 (5) The Minister may, by legislative instrument, determine a class of persons for the purposes of this section.

Australia Post to record information
 (6) Australia Post must ensure that, before a prohibited thing is destroyed, the following information is recorded, to the extent to which it is known by Australia Post:
 (a) the sender's name and address;
 (b) the intended recipient's name and address;
 (c) what the article contains.

Written notice to sender
 (7) If the sender's name and address has been recorded, Australia Post must, as soon as practicable after a prohibited thing is destroyed, give written notice to the sender:
 (a) advising of the destruction of the thing and the reasons for the destruction; and
 (b) stating the following information, if it has been recorded:
 (i) the intended recipient's name and address;
 (ii) what the article contained.

Written notice to intended recipient
 (8) If the sender's name and address has not been recorded but the intended recipient's name and address has been recorded, Australia Post must, as soon as practicable after a prohibited thing is destroyed, give written notice to the intended recipient:
 (a) advising of the destruction of the thing and the reasons for the destruction; and
 (b) stating what the article contained, if that information has been recorded.

Exceptions
 (9) Subsection (7) or (8) does not apply in relation to a prohibited thing:
 (a) if an AFP appointee (within the meaning of the Australian Federal Police Act 1979), or a member of the police force or police service of a State or Territory, informs an employee of Australia Post that subsection (7) or (8) should not apply in relation to that thing; or
 (b) in the circumstances determined in an instrument under subsection (10).
 (10) The Minister may, by legislative instrument, determine circumstances for the purposes of paragraph (9)(b).

Same permitted person may do several things
 (11) To avoid doubt, the same permitted person may do 2 or more things under this section in relation to an article or its contents.