Customs Act 1901

PART V - WAREHOUSES  

SECTION 79   WAREHOUSE LICENCES  

79(1)    

Subject to this Part, the Comptroller-General of Customs may grant a person or partnership a licence in writing, to be known as a warehouse licence, to warehouse goods at a place covered by the licence.

79(2)    

A warehouse licence may cover:

(a)    if the licence is an excise-equivalent warehouse licence - one or more places; or

(b)    otherwise - just one place.

79(3)    

A warehouse licence may authorise, at a place covered by the licence, the warehousing of:

(a)    goods generally; or

(b)    goods included in one or more classes.

79(4)    

A warehouse licence may also authorise, at a place covered by the licence and in relation to all or particular classes of goods warehoused at the place, any of the following activities to be carried on:

(a)    blending;

(b)    packaging;

(c)    processing;

(d)    manufacturing excisable goods;

(e)    trading;

(f)    other activities specified in the licence.