1Customs (Places of Detention) Directions 2025

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Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia

 

LIN 25/096

 

Customs (Places of Detention) Directions 2025

I, Gavan Reynolds, Comptroller-General of Customs, under section 219ZJE of the Customs Act 1901, make the following directions.

Dated  25 September 2025

Gavan Reynolds AO

Comptroller-General of Customs

 

 

Contents

Part 1—Preliminary

1  Name

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Definitions

5  Schedules

Part 2—Detention directions

6  Places of detention

7  Personal privacy during searches

8  Transitional provisions

Schedule 1—Repeals

 

 

Part 1—Preliminary

1  Name

  This instrument is the Customs (Places of Detention) Directions 2025.

2  Commencement

  This instrument commences on 1 October 2025.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under section 219ZJE of the Customs Act 1901.

4  Definitions

Note: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in the Customs Act 1901, including the following:

(a) designated place;

(b) officer of Customs.

  In this instrument:

ABF means the Australian Border Force, which has the same meaning as in the Australian Border Force Act 2015.

ABF vehicle means a vehicle:

 (a) that is operated or under the control of the Australian Border Force; and

 (b) that is used or capable of being used for the lawful transport or temporary detention of persons under Division 1BA of Part XII of the Act.

Act means the Customs Act 1901.

Detainee means a person detained under Division 1BA of Part XII of the Act.

5  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.