Home Affairs Legislation Amendment (Digital Passenger Declaration) Regulations 2021 (F2021L01772)

Schedule 2   Customs amendments

Customs Regulation 2015

7   After section 27

Insert:

27A Providing information about Subdivision AA goods - digital passenger declaration

(1) For the purposes of subsection 71AAAB(1) of the Act, if:

(a) a person is the owner of Subdivision AA goods imported into Australia; and

(b) the person has indicated to a Collector that the person has submitted a digital passenger declaration about the goods to a departmental system that processes digital passenger declarations;

the person must comply with subsection (2).

(2) The person must:

(a) provide a Collector with a code generated by the departmental system that processes digital passenger declarations that indicates whether or not the goods are eligible to be authorised for delivery into home consumption under section 71 of the Act, by showing the Collector the code in the form generated by the system; and

(b) if the digital passenger declaration about the goods is not, or is no longer, accurate or complete - provide any information required to correct or to complete the declaration to a Collector orallyor in writing; and

(c) if, before a Collector makes a decision under subsection 71AAAB(2) of the Act about the goods, a Collector requires the person to provide further information to clarify whether or not the goods are eligible to be authorised for delivery into home consumption under section 71 of the Act - provide the further information to a Collector orally or in writing.

(3) A person in charge of the person on the relevant flight or voyage into Australia may provide an indication, a code or information on behalf of the person for the purposes of this section.