Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00591:section:167b
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00591
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 167B
Character Range: 378473–379383

167B  AFMA may give information about boats to officers of Customs
 (1) This section applies if AFMA has any information relating to boats that AFMA got by means of a vessel monitoring system (see subsection (4)).
 (2) AFMA may give information of that kind to an officer of Customs if AFMA, having had regard to any advice received from an officer of Customs, considers that giving an officer of Customs the information would help an officer of Customs to perform a function or activity that relates to civil surveillance.
 (3) This section does not, by implication, affect any other power of AFMA to give information.
 (4) In this section:
officer of Customs has the meaning given by subsection 4(1) of the Customs Act 1901.
vessel monitoring system means a system in which boats are fitted with an electronic device that can give information about the boats' course or position, or other such information.