PART XI
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AGENTS AND CUSTOMS BROKERS
History
Pt XI heading substituted by No 142 of 1999, s 3 and Sch 3, item 3, effective 1 July 2000.
Division 3
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Licensing of customs brokers
History
Pt XI Div 3 heading substituted by No 142 of 1999, s 3 and Sch 3, item 17, effective 1 July 2000.
Item 131 of Sch 3 of No 142 of 1999, effective 1 July 2000, contains the following transitional provision:
Agents licences continue as broker's licences
(1) An agents licence that was in force immediately before the commencement of this Schedule continues in force as a broker's licence as if it had been granted under the
Customs Act 1901
(as amended by this Schedule) immediately after the commencement of this Schedule.
(2) This item does not prevent:
(a)
the suspension or cancellation of such a licence; or
(b)
the alteration or endorsement of such a licence; or
(c)
the variation of an endorsement on such a licence.
SECTION 183C
GRANT OF LICENCE
183C(1)
Subject to this Part, the Comptroller-General of Customs must, upon application by a person for the grant of a broker
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s licence:
(a)
grant the person a licence, in writing, to act as a customs broker at a place or places specified in the licence; or
(b)
refuse, in writing, to grant the person a broker
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s licence.
History
S 183C(1) substituted by No 79 of 2024, s3 and Sch 1 item 67, applicable in relation to an application made on or after 5 March 2025.
183C(2)
A broker
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s licence granted to a corporate customs broker shall not specify a place as a place at which the corporate customs broker may act as a customs broker unless the licence specifies as a nominee of the corporate customs broker a customs broker at that place who, in accordance with section
183CD
, is eligible to be its nominee.
History
S 183C(2) amended by No 142 of 1999, s 3 and Sch 3, items 21 and 22.