Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00040:section:90e:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00040
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 90E (pt 1/2)
Character Range: 84612–87485

90E  Definitions
  In this Part:
ASIO means the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation.
ASIO Act means the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979.
AUSTRAC entrusted person has the same meaning as in the Anti‑Money Laundering and Counter‑Terrorism Financing Act 2006.
authorised ASIO officer has the meaning given by section 90F.
biosecurity official has the same meaning as in the Biosecurity Act 2015.
compliance agency means any of the following:
 (a) the Immigration and Border Protection Department;
 (b) the Agriculture Department (within the meaning of the Biosecurity Act 2015);
 (c) an entity for which a quarantine inspection officer of a prescribed State/Territory exercises quarantine powers or performs quarantine functions;
 (d) a consumer protection agency;
 (e) another prescribed agency.
Comptroller‑General of Customs means the person who is the Comptroller‑General of Customs in accordance with subsection 11(3) or 14(2) of the Australian Border Force Act 2015.
consumer protection agency means any of the following:
 (a) the ACCC;
 (b) the Australian Securities and Investments Commission;
 (c) the Office of Fair Trading of New South Wales;
 (d) the Office of Fair Trading and Business Affairs of Victoria;
 (e) the Department of Fair Trading of Queensland;
 (f) the Department of Consumer and Employment Protection of Western Australia;
 (g) the Office of Consumer and Business Affairs of South Australia;
 (h) the Office of Consumer Affairs and Fair Trading of Tasmania;
 (i) the Office of Fair Trading of the Australian Capital Territory;
 (j) the Office of Consumer and Business Affairs of the Northern Territory;
 (k) another prescribed agency.
consumer protection law means:
 (a) the Competition and Consumer Act 2010; or
 (b) the Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001; or
 (c) the Corporations Act 2001; or
 (d) a State Fair Trading Act; or
 (e) a State Sale of Goods Act; or
 (f) another prescribed Act.
customs duty means any duty of customs imposed under a law of the Commonwealth.
customs officer means an officer of Customs within the meaning of the Customs Act 1901.
employee of Australia Post includes a person who performs services for or on behalf of Australia Post and an employee of such a person.
GST has the same meaning as in the A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999.
Immigration and Border Protection Department means the Department administered by the Minister administering Part XII of the Customs Act 1901.
information includes suspicions, suppositions or opinions.
in the course of post, in relation to an article, means the article:
 (a) has been collected or received by or on behalf of Australia Post from a place in Australia or outside Australia for carriage by post to a place in Australia, but has not been delivered by or through Australia Post; or
 (b) has been