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ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING AND COUNTER-TERRORISM FINANCING ACT 2006 - SECT 56 Movements of monetary instruments out of Australia

ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING AND COUNTER-TERRORISM FINANCING ACT 2006 - SECT 56

Movements of monetary instruments out of Australia

  (1)   For the purposes of this Act, a person moves a monetary instrument out of Australia if the person takes or sends the instrument out of Australia.

  (2)   For the purposes of this Act, if:

  (a)   a person arranges to leave Australia on an aircraft or ship; and

  (b)   either:

  (i)   the person has a monetary instrument in the person's baggage, and the person enters a place at which customs officers examine passports; or

  (ii)   the person takes a monetary instrument into a place at which customs officers examine passports;

the person is taken to have moved the instrument out of Australia when the person leaves that place.