Footnotes

Chapter 2 - Overview of the Bill

[1]        Significant portions of text in this chapter are reproduced from the Explanatory Memorandum (EM) to the Bill and the Second Reading Speech. This brief is intended to provide an overview of the purpose and clauses of the Bill. The EM may be consulted for more detailed explanation of particular clauses.

[2]        Division 307 of the Criminal Code is concerned with serious drug offences.

[3]        The Hon. Philip Ruddock MP, Attorney-General, Second Reading Speech, House of Representatives Hansard, 7 December 2006, p. 10.

[4]        p. 5.

[5]        The Hon. Philip Ruddock MP, Attorney-General, Second Reading Speech, House of Representatives Hansard, 7 December 2006, p. 10.

[6]        EM, p. 5.

[7]        EM, pp 6-7.

[8]        EM, p. 7.

[9]        EM, p. 7.

[10]      EM, p. 7.

[11]      EM, p. 7.

[12]      EM, p. 7.

[13]      EM, p. 7. The new paragraphs 185(2)(cb) and (cc) do not apply to narcotic goods. An existing power at paragraph 185(2)(e) allows the seizure without warrant of any narcotic goods found in a search conducted under subsection 185(2).

[14]      EM, p. 7.

[15]      EM, p. 8. See discussion of Item 3 above at 1.16.

[16]      EM, p. 8.

[17]      EM, p. 8.

[18]      EM, p. 8.

[19]      Similar limits are placed on the power to arrest a person found on board a ship under paragraph 185(2)(d) and the new power to conduct a personal search for evidentiary material under proposed subsection 185AA(1B).

[20]      EM, p. 9.

[21]      EM, p. 9.

[22]      Under existing section 185A, officers are given the power to board certain foreign ships on the high seas and to establish the identity of a ship and its occupants. Australia has only limited jurisdiction on the high seas, and officers generally have no power to enforce Australian laws. Accordingly, the only purpose for which the personal search power may be used on a ship boarded under section 185A is to search for weapons or potential weapons: EM, p. 10.

[23]      EM, p. 10.

[24]      EM, p. 10. A similar power is contained in existing subsection 185(2C) in connection with the power to examine goods granted under paragraph 185(2)(b).

[25]      EM, p. 10. A similar limitation is contained in subsection 185(3C) in connection with the powers to board, search and examine goods under section 185.

[26]      EM, pp 10-11.

[27]      EM, p. 11.

[28]      EM, p. 11.

[29]      EM, p. 11. Along with subsection 185AA(7), existing subsections 185AA(4) and (5) constrain the scope of the use of the search powers. Subsection 185AA(4) makes it clear that section 185AA does not authorise the removal of a person's clothing or to require a person to remove their clothes, other than the person's outer garments. Subsection 185AA(5) requires that a search of a person or their clothing must be conducted by an officer or person of the same sex.

[30]      EM, p. 12. Existing subsection 185(4A) is a similar provision; it applies to evidence obtained during the exercise of search powers under section 185.

[31]      EM, p. 12.

[32]      EM, p. 13. The purpose for which a frisk search is allowed under section 219L is consistent with the allowable purposes under subsections 219L(1) and 219L(1A). These sections allow a frisk search where a detention officer suspects on reasonable grounds a person of carrying prohibited goods.

[33]      EM, p. 13.

[34]      EM, p. 15.

[35]      EM, p. 15.

[36]      EM, p. 15.

[37]      EM, p. 15.

[38]      EM, p. 16.

[39]      EM, p. 16.

[40]      EM, p. 17. Emphasis in original.

[41]      EM, p. 17.

[42]      EM, p. 21.

[43]      EM, p. 22.

[44]      EM, p. 28.

[45]      EM, p. 28.

[46]      EM, p. 29.

[47]      EM, p. 28.

[48]      EM, p. 28.

Chapter 3 - Key issues

[1]        Australian Customs Service, Submission 2A, p. 1.

[2]        Submission 2A, p. 1.

[3]        Committee Hansard, 22 January 2007, p. 7.

[4]        Submission 2A, pp 5-6; Law Council of Australia, Submission 6, p. 3.

[5]        Submission 1, p. 1.

[6]        Submission 1, p. 3.

[7]        Submission 1, p. 3.

[8]        Committee Hansard, 22 January 2007, p. 9.

[9]        Committee Hansard, 22 January 2007, p. 9.

[10]      Committee Hansard, 22 January 2007, p. 9.

[11]      Submission 2, p. 2.

[12]      Submission 2, p. 2.

[13]      Submission 2, p. 2; Committee Hansard, 22 January 2007, p. 7.

[14]      Submission 2, p. 2; Committee Hansard, 22 January 2007, p. 7.

[15]      Committee Hansard, 22 January 2007, p. 5.

[16]      Submission 2, p. 3.

[17]      Submission 4, p. 2.

[18]      Submission 4, p. 2.

[19]      Submission 4, p. 2.

[20]      Submission 7, p. 1.

[21]      Submission 7, p. 2.

[22]      Submission 7, p. 2.

[23]      Submission 2A, p. 2.

[24]      Submission 2C, p. 1.

[25]      Submission 2B, p. 1.

[26]      Submission 2, p. 3.

[27]      Submission 4, p. 2.

[28]      Committee Hansard, 22 January 2007, p. 3.

[29]      Committee Hansard, 22 January 2007, p. 3.

[30]      Committee Hansard, 22 January 2003, p. 3.

[31]      Committee Hansard, 22 January 2003, pp. 3-4.

[32]      ACT Director of Public Prosecutions, Submission 7, p. 1.

[33]      Submission 4, p. 1.

[34]      Submission 2, p. 2.

[35]      Submission 2, p. 3.

[36]      Submission 2C, p. 1.

[37]      Submission 2A, p. 1.

[38]      Submission 2A, p. 3.

[39]      Submission 2A, p. 3.

[40]      Submission 2A, p. 3.

[41]      Submission 2A, p. 3.

[42]      Submission 8, p. 1.

[43]      Submission 2, p. 3.

[44]      Submission 1, p. 3.

[45]      Submission 1, p. 3.

[46]      Submission 2, Attachment A, p. 7.

[47]      Submission 2, p. 4.

[48]      Submission 2, p. 4.

[49]      Submission 1, p. 3.

[50]      Malika Holdings Pty Ltd v Stretton (2001) 204 CLR 290.

[51]      Submission 2, Attachment A, p. 7.

[52]      Committee Hansard, 22 January 2007, p. 10.

[53]      Submission 2, Attachment A, p. 7.

[54]      Committee Hansard, 22 January 2007, p. 10.

[55]      Submission 1, p. 1.

[56]      Submission 6, p. 4.

[57]      Submission 6, p. 4.

[58]      Submission 6, p. 4. See also Customs Brokers and Forwarders Council of Australia, Submission 1, p. 2.

[59]      Submission 2A, p. 6.

[60]      Submission 2, Attachment A, p. 7.

[61]      Senate Standing Committee for the Scrutiny of Bills, Entry, Search and Seizure Provisions in Commonwealth Legislation, December 2006, p. 337.

[62]      Senate Standing Committee for the Scrutiny of Bills, Entry, Search and Seizure Provisions in Commonwealth Legislation, December 2006, pp 318-319.

[63]      The committee notes that a reasonable starting point for any such investigation would be, as suggested in the ACT DPP submission, the privileges protected under Part 3.10 of the Evidence Act 1995.

[64]      Entry, Search and Seizure Provisions in Commonwealth Legislation, December 2006, p. 318.

[65]      Entry, Search and Seizure Provisions in Commonwealth Legislation, December 2006, p. 318.

[66]      Entry, Search and Seizure Provisions in Commonwealth Legislation, December 2006, p. 325.