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

Schedule 1   Amendments

Part 8   Strengthening integrity controls

Customs Act 1901

145   After subsection 77K(3)

Insert:

(3A) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(j), the matters covered by this subsection are the following:

(a) if the applicant is a natural person - the experience of the following in operations that would be performed upon, or in relation to, goods at the proposed depot:

(i) the applicant;

(ii) each person, known to the Comptroller-General of Customs, who would participate in the management or control of, or in the operations carried out at, the proposed depot (whether or not the person would be present at the proposed depot);

(b) if the applicant is a partnership - the experience of the following in operations that would be performed upon, or in relation to, goods at the proposed depot:

(i) each partner in the partnership;

(ii) each person, known to the Comptroller-General of Customs, who would participate in the management or control of, or in the operations carried out at, the proposed depot (whether or not the person would be present at the proposed depot);

(c) if the applicant is a company - the experience of the following in operations that would be performed upon, or in relation to, goods at the proposed depot:

(i) the company;

(ii) each director of the company;

(iii) each person, known to the Comptroller-General of Customs, who would participate in the management or control of, or in the operations carried out at, the proposed depot (whether or not the person would be present at the proposed depot);

(d) in any case - the applicant's operating procedures and processes that would apply at the proposed depot in relation to goods at the proposed depot.