Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

EXCISE ACT 1901 - SECT 87AA

    An officer may, without warrant, stop and search a conveyance for tobacco leaf or excisable goods if the officer has reasonable grounds for believing that:

  (a)   tobacco leaf or excisable goods are in or on the conveyance; and

  (b)   the conveyance has been used, is being used or is intended to be used in the commission of an offence against:

  (i)   a provision of the Excise Acts; or

  (ii)   section   6 of the Crimes Act 1914 ; or

  (iii)   section   11.1, 11.2, 11.2A or 11.5 of the Criminal Code ; or

  (iv)   a provision of Division   308 in Schedule   1 to the Taxation Administration Act 1953 .