Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION ACT 1999 - SECT 397

  (1)   By force of this section each of the following is an inspector:

  (a)   each member or special member of the Australian Federal Police;

  (b)   each person appointed as an inspector under subsection   43(1) of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975 (other than such a person whose appointment relates only to the powers of an inspector under Part   VIIA of that Act);

  (c)   each officer of Customs.

  (2)   Paragraph   (1)(b) does not apply for the purposes of the application of this Act to an offence against, or a matter relating to, Part   13A.

  (3)   By force of this section, for the purposes of the application of this Act to an offence against, or a matter relating to, Part   13A, each of the following is an inspector:

  (b)   each member of the police force of an external Territory;

  (c)   each biosecurity officer (within the meaning of the Biosecurity Act 2015 ).

Note:   Part   13A deals with international movement of wildlife specimens.