Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00155:section:4:p15
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Provision Reference: s 4 (pt 15/20)
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and perform all the functions of an officer of Customs.
 (1C) For the purposes of paragraph (e) of the definition of officer of Customs in subsection (1), the Comptroller‑General of Customs may, by writing, specify an office or position (whether or not in or for the Commonwealth).
 (1D) For the purposes of subparagraph (f)(i) of the definition of officer of Customs in subsection (1), the Comptroller‑General of Customs may, by writing, authorise a person to exercise the powers or perform the functions of an officer of Customs for the purposes of a specified provision of a Customs Act.
 (1E) For the purposes of subparagraph (f)(ii) of the definition of officer of Customs in subsection (1), the Comptroller‑General of Customs may, by writing, specify an office or position (whether or not in or for the Commonwealth) in relation to a specified provision of a Customs Act.
 (2) A reference in this Act to an officer of police or a police officer shall be read as a reference to a member of the Australian Federal Police or of the Police Force of a State or Territory.
 (3) A reference in this Act or in any other Act to a Customs Tariff or Customs Tariff alteration proposed in the Parliament shall be read as a reference to a Customs Tariff or Customs Tariff alteration proposed by a motion moved in the House of Representatives, and a Customs Tariff or Customs Tariff alteration proposed by a motion so moved shall be deemed to have been proposed in the Parliament at the time at which the motion was moved.
 (3A) A reference in this Act or any other law of the Commonwealth to the tariff classification under which goods are classified is a reference to the heading in Schedule 3 to the Customs Tariff Act 1995 or such a heading's subheading:
 (a) in whose third column a rate of duty or the quota sign within the meaning of that Act is set out; and
 (b) under which the goods are classified for the purposes of that Act.
 (3B) For the purposes of this Act and any other law of the Commonwealth:
 (a) a heading in Schedule 3 to the Customs Tariff Act 1995 may be referred to by the word "heading" followed by the digits with which the heading begins;
 (b) a subheading of a heading in that Schedule may be referred to by the word "subheading" followed by the digits with which the subheading begins;
 (c) an item in Schedule 4 to that Act may be referred to by the word "item" followed by the number, or the number and letter, with which the item begins;
 (3C) Unless the contrary intention appears, if the