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Australian Border Force

image by Jonathan Dixon, 17 July 2015 Ratio 1:2

Australian Border Force Flag
Variant without "Australian"
Clarifying the legislative situation

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Australian Border Force Flag

The Australian Border Force was created on 1 July 2015, combining the functions of the Department of Immigration and Border Protection and the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service. As a result, the Australian customs flag has been changed to reflect the name Border Force. The Customs Regulations were amended to change the word "CUSTOMS" to "AUSTRALIAN BORDER FORCE", but a flag flying at Sydney Airport has the text simply as "BORDER FORCE".
(see https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/F2015L00854 Customs and Other Legislation Amendment (Australian Border Force) Regulation 20, Schedule 1, Section 10, modifying Section 11 of the Customs Regulations.)

Clearly a defaced national flag doesn't need the word "AUSTRALIAN", so the flag in use at the airport is more sensible than the de jure customs flag. There would be seriously legal problems for ships using anything other than the de jure flag, though, so perhaps the regulations will be/are being changed again.
Jonathan Dixon, 17 July 2015

In early March I noticed that the BORDER FORCE flag at Sydney Airport Customs House had been replaced with one that included AUSTRALIAN. However as there was little breeze I could not make out the appearance of the letters.
Jeff Thomson, 22 March 2016

Variant without "Australian"

image by Jonathan Dixon, 17 July 2015

Apparently this interim BORDER FORCE version of the flag came about because such new flags had to be ordered well in advance, before it was clear what exactly the amended flag prescription would prescribe. When the Customs Regulation 2015 amendments took effect from 1 July 2015 the altered flag prescription stated;

11. Flag.
For section 14 of the Act, the flag is the Australian National Flag with the words "AUSTRALIAN BORDER FORCE" in bold, white letters between the Commonwealth Star and the lower part of the Southern Cross.

Unlike with the previous Customs flag, nowhere in the legislation is the flag referred to as the Australian Border Force flag or any other name. It is only referred to as a reference to section 11 as shown above.
Jeff Thomson, 27 May 2017

Clarifying the legislative situation

On 1 April 2015 the new Customs Regulation 2015 made ensign and insignia provisions for Commonwealth aircraft at Regulation 7, ensign provisions for Commonwealth ships at Regulation 8, and prescribed the Customs flag at Regulation 11. This new set of regulations was amended only three months later on 1 July 2015 as the Australian Border Force replaced Customs. The links below go to these amended Regulations 7, 8 and 11.
www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/legis/cth/consol_reg/cr2015215/s7.html
www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/legis/cth/consol_reg/cr2015215/s8.html
www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/legis/cth/consol_reg/cr2015215/s11.html
Jeff Thomson, 24 July 2021

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