Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00044:section:199:p3
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00044
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 199 (pt 3/4)
Character Range: 446164–448740

of exercising the powers conferred by subsection (1), (2), (3) or (4).
 (8) A police officer or a customs officer may, with such assistance as is reasonable and necessary:
 (a) board a ship or aircraft; or
 (b) examine or search the ship or aircraft, and any goods found on the ship or aircraft;
for the purpose of finding out whether there is at or in the place, or in the goods:
 (c) any monetary instrument in respect of which a report under section 53 is required; or
 (d) any monetary instrument that may be of interest under subsection (14).

Entry to eligible places
 (9) A police officer or a customs officer may, with such assistance as is reasonable and necessary:
 (a) go onto or enter any eligible place; and
 (b) examine the place, and any goods found at or in it;
for the purpose of finding out whether there is at or in the place, or in the goods:
 (c) any monetary instrument in respect of which a report under section 53 is required; or
 (d) any monetary instrument that may be of interest under subsection (14).

Seizure
 (10) A police officer or a customs officer may seize a monetary instrument found in the course of an examination or search under subsection (8) or (9) if:
 (a) the police officer or customs officer has reasonable grounds to suspect that the monetary instrument may afford evidence as to the commission of an offence against section 53; or
 (b) the police officer or customs officer has reasonable grounds to suspect that the monetary instrument may be of interest under subsection (14).

Offence
 (11) A person commits an offence if:
 (a) the person is subject to a requirement under subsection (1) or (2); and
 (b) the person engages in conduct; and
 (c) the person's conduct breaches the requirement.
Penalty for contravention of this subsection: Imprisonment for 1 year or 60 penalty units, or both.

Civil penalty
 (12) If a person is subject to a requirement under subsection (1) or (2), the person must not engage in conduct that breaches the requirement.
 (13) Subsection (12) is a civil penalty provision.

Monetary instrument of interest
 (14) For the purposes of this section, a monetary instrument may be of interest if the monetary instrument:
 (a) may be relevant to the investigation of, or prosecution of a person for, an offence against a law of the Commonwealth or of a State or Territory; or
 (b) may be of assistance in the enforcement of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 or regulations under that Act; or
 (c) may be of assistance in the enforcement of a law of a State or Territory that corresponds to the Proceeds of