CUSTOMS ACT 1901 - SECT 180 Interpretation

CUSTOMS ACT 1901 - SECT 180

    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.

"customs broker licence application charge" means the customs broker licence application charge imposed by the Customs Licensing Charges Act 1997 and payable as set out in section   183CA.

"customs broker licence charge" means the customs broker licence charge imposed by the Customs Licensing Charges Act 1997 and payable as set out in section   183CJA.

"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.