Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

CUSTOMS ACT 1901 - SECT 119A

             (1)  At any time after an export entry, a submanifest or an outward manifest is communicated to Customs and before the goods to which it relates are exported, a withdrawal of the entry, submanifest or manifest may be communicated to Customs:

                     (a)  in the case of a withdrawal of an entry that was communicated to Customs by document--by document; or

                     (b)  in any other case--electronically.

             (2)  A documentary withdrawal of an entry must:

                     (a)  be communicated by the person by whom, or on whose behalf, the entry was communicated; and

                     (b)  be communicated to Customs by giving it to an officer doing duty in relation to export entries; and

                     (c)  be in an approved form; and

                     (d)  contain such information as is required by the form; and

                     (e)  be signed in a manner specified in the form.

             (3)  An electronic withdrawal of an entry, submanifest or manifest must communicate such information as is set out in an approved statement.

             (4)  A withdrawal of an entry, submanifest or manifest has effect when, in accordance with section 119D, it is communicated to Customs.