Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

CUSTOMS ACT 1901 - SECT 180

             (1)  In this Part, unless the contrary intention appears:

"broker's licence" means a licence to act as a customs broker granted under section 183C (including such a licence renewed under section 183CJ).

"Committee" means the National Customs Brokers Licensing Advisory Committee continued in existence by subsection 183D(1).

"corporate customs broker" means a customs broker that is a company or a partnership.

"customs broker" means a person who holds a broker's licence that is in force, and in relation to a place, means a person who holds a broker's licence to act as a customs broker at the place.

"nominee" , in relation to a customs broker, means another customs broker whose name is endorsed on the broker's licence held by the first-mentioned customs broker as a nominee of the first-mentioned customs broker.

"person" means a natural person, a company or a partnership.

"prescribed offence" means:

                     (a)  an offence against this Act; or

                     (b)  an offence punishable under a law of the Commonwealth (other than this Act), or by a law of a State or of a Territory, by imprisonment for one year or longer.

             (2)  A reference in this Part, other than in subsection 181(2), 183CC(5), 183CJ(1), 183CQ(4), (5) or (7) or 183CR(3) or in section 183CS, 183D, 183DA, 183DC, 183DD or 183S, to the CEO shall be read as including a reference to a Regional Director for a State or Territory.