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

Schedule 1   Amendments

Part 2   Notice of decisions etc.

Customs Act 1901

69   Subsections 183CF(1) and (2)

Repeal the subsections, substitute:

Places

(1) Subject to subsection (3), the Comptroller-General of Customs must, upon application by a customs broker:

(a) vary the licence so that a place is specified, or ceases to be specified, in the licence as a place at which the holder of the licence may act as a customs broker; or

(b) refuse, in writing, to vary the licence.

Nominees

(2) Subject to subsection (3), the Comptroller-General of Customs must, upon application by a customs broker:

(a) vary the licence so that a person is specified, or ceases to be specified, in the licence as a nominee of the customs broker; or

(b) refuse, in writing, to vary the licence.

Kind of application

(2A) An application under subsection (1) or (2) may be made by document or electronically.

(2B) A documentary application must:

(a) be in writing; and

(b) be in an approved form; and

(c) contain such information as the form requires; and

(d) be accompanied by any documents required by the form; and

(e) be signed in the manner indicated in the form.

(2C) An electronic application must:

(a) communicate such information as is set out in an approved statement; and

(b) be accompanied by any documents required by the approved statement.