Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

CUSTOMS ACT 1901 - SECT 219ZE

  (1)   In spite of any other provision of this Division, but subject to subsection   (2) and section   219ZG, where a person is detained under this Division and:

  (a)   an order is made under this Division that the person be released; or

  (b)   an order for the detention of the person is revoked; or

  (c)   an order for the detention of the person has ended and subsection   219V (5) does not apply; or

  (ca)   if the detention is under Subdivision A--no detention officer suspects on reasonable grounds that the person is unlawfully carrying prohibited goods on his or her body; or

  (d)   if the detention is under Subdivision B--no detention officer suspects on reasonable grounds that the person is unlawfully carrying prohibited goods on his or her body; or

  (e)   if the detention is under Subdivision C--no detention officer suspects on reasonable grounds that the person is internally concealing a suspicious substance; or

  (f)   an internal medical search of the person is completed;

the detention, and any search, of the person under this Division must cease immediately.

  (2)   Subsection   (1) does not prevent a further application of this Division, or the detention of the person under any law other than this Division.

  (3)   If:

  (a)   the detainee is released at any place other than the place at which he or she was first detained; and

  (b)   the detainee so requests;

the detainee must immediately be returned free of charge to the place of the first detention.