Customs Legislation Amendment Act (No. 1) 2002 (82 of 2002)

Schedule 3   International trade modernisation

Part 4   Other amendments

Customs Act 1901

53   At the end of section 243SA

Add:

(2) A person must not fail to answer a question that a monitoring officer, pursuant to subsection 214AH(2), requires the person to answer, if:

(a) the person is the occupier of the relevant premises, or a representative of the occupier whom the occupier has nominated to Customs to answer questions under that subsection; or

(b) the person is not covered by paragraph (a) and no other person of the kind mentioned in that paragraph is present at the premises and available to answer questions put by the monitoring officer.

Penalty: 30 penalty units.