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

Schedule 1   Amendments

Part 14   Contingent amendments

Customs Act 1901

225   At the end of section 81B

Add:

Variation on own initiative

(9) The Comptroller-General of Customs may, on the Comptroller-General's own initiative, vary a warehouse licence by:

(a) in any case - removing any place covered by the licence and substituting a different place; or

(b) if the licence is an excise-equivalent warehouse licence:

(i) removing a place from the places covered by the licence without substituting or adding any places, provided that after the variation there is at least one place that is covered by the licence; or

(ii) adding a place to the places covered by the licence.

Note: To change the boundaries or other details of a place covered by a warehouse licence, the licence may be varied as mentioned in paragraph (a).

(10) The Comptroller-General of Customs must give the holder of the warehouse licence a copy of the variation under subsection (9). The variation takes effect at the time the copy is given.