Customs Amendment (Strengthening and Modernising Licensing and Other Measures) Act 2024 (79 of 2024)

Schedule 1   Amendments

Part 3   Streamlined publication requirements

Customs Act 1901

108   Subsections 83(3) and (4)

Repeal the subsections, substitute:

(3) Subject to subsection (4), if a warehouse licence has not been renewed and goods remain in the former warehouse, the Comptroller-General of Customs must publish a notice, by any means the Comptroller-General considers appropriate, informing owners of goods in the former warehouse:

(a) that they are required, within a time specified in the notice or any further time allowed by the Comptroller-General, to:

(i) pay to the Collector duty payable in respect of their goods in the former warehouse; or

(ii) remove their goods in the former warehouse to another place in accordance with permission obtained from the Collector; and

(b) that, if they do not comply with the requirements of the notice, their goods in that former warehouse will be sold.

(4) If the Comptroller-General of Customs is satisfied that all the goods in the former warehouse are the property of the person who held the licence, the Comptroller-General is not required to publish a notice under subsection (3) in relation to the former warehouse. Instead, the Comptroller-General must give a notice to the person informing the person:

(a) that the person is required, within a time specified in the notice or any further time allowed by the Comptroller-General, to:

(i) pay to the Collector duty payable in respect of the person's goods in the former warehouse; or

(ii) remove the person's goods in the former warehouse to another place in accordance with permission obtained from the Collector; and

(b) that, if the person does not comply with the requirements of the notice, the person's goods in the former warehouse will be sold.

Note: See section 102AA for the ways in which the notice may be given to the person.