Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00090:section:99zl
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00090
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 99ZL
Character Range: 489259–490547

99ZL  Examination and inspection powers
 (1) A Customs officer may, in an examination place and with such assistance and using such force as is reasonable and necessary in the circumstances, examine, and inspect the contents of:
 (a) any item of baggage, in that place, that is carried, or taken to be carried, by an exporter; or
 (b) any article, in that place, that is consigned for export;
in order to determine, for the purposes of section 99ZJ or 99ZK:
 (c) whether or not the baggage or article contains drug like substances; or
 (d) if the presence of drug like substances in the baggage or article has been disclosed by the exporter—whether or not the drug like substances in the baggage or article are as so disclosed.
 (2) A Customs officer must, in exercising the powers of examination and inspection referred to in subsection (1), act in accordance with guidelines issued under section 99ZS.
 (3) In this section:
examination place means:
 (a) a port, airport, wharf or boarding station appointed under section 15 of the Customs Act 1901; or
 (b) a place that is the subject of a permission under section 58 of that Act; or
 (c) an international mail centre approved for the purposes of subsection 77F(1) of that Act; or
 (d) a place appointed under section 77G of that Act.