Customs Act 1901

PART XI - AGENTS AND CUSTOMS BROKERS  

Division 1 - Preliminary  

SECTION 180  

180   INTERPRETATION  

In this Part, unless the contrary intention appears -

"agents licence"
(Omitted by No 142 of 1999)

broker's licence
means a licence to act as a customs broker granted under section 183C (including such a licence renewed under section 183CJ );

"Committee"
means the National Customs Brokers Licensing Advisory Committee continued in existence by subsection 183D(1) ;

"corporate customs agent"
(Omitted by No 142 of 1999)

corporate customs broker
means a customs broker that is a company or a partnership;

"customs agent"
(Omitted by No 142 of 1999)

customs broker
means a person who holds a broker's licence that is in force, and in relation to a place, means a person who holds a broker's licence to act as a customs broker at the place;

customs broker licence application charge
means the customs broker licence application charge imposed by the Customs Licensing Charges Act 1997 and payable as set out in section 183CA .

customs broker licence charge
means the customs broker licence charge imposed by the Customs Licensing Charges Act 1997 and payable as set out in section 183CJA .

"nominee"
, in relation to a customs broker, means another customs broker whose name is endorsed on the broker's licence held by the first-mentioned customs broker as a nominee of the first-mentioned customs broker;

"person"
means a natural person, a company or a partnership;

"prescribed offence"
means -

(a) an offence against this Act; or

(b) an offence punishable under a law of the Commonwealth (other than this Act), or by a law of a State or of a Territory, by imprisonment for one year or longer.

180(2)    
(Repealed by No 41 of 2015)