Excise and Customs Legislation Amendment (Streamlining Administration) Act 2024 (51 of 2024)

Schedule 1   Streamlining administration

Part 1   Warehouse and excise licensing

Division 1   Main amendments

Customs Act 1901

7   Subsection 80(1)

Repeal the subsection, substitute:

(1) An application for a warehouse licence may be made to the Comptroller-General of Customs.

(1A) The application must:

(a) be in writing; and

(b) contain a description of each place that the licence is proposed to cover; and

(c) specify, for each place that the licence is proposed to cover, the kinds of goods that would be warehoused at the place; and

(d) set out the name and address of each person the Comptroller-General of Customs is required to consider for the purposes of paragraph 81(1)(a) or (b) or (1A)(a) or (b); and

(e) set out such particulars of the matters that the Comptroller-General of Customs is required to consider for the purposes of paragraph 81(1A)(c), (d) or (e) as will enable the adequate consideration of those matters; and

(f) contain such other information as is prescribed; and

(g) except if the application is for an excise-equivalent warehouse licence - be accompanied by the warehouse licence application charge.

Note: For paragraph (b), only an excise-equivalent warehouse licence may cover more than one place: see subsection 79(2).