Commonwealth Numbered Acts

Customs and Excise Amendment Act 1982 No. 81 of 1982 - SECT 9

9. Section 64 of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section is
substituted: Reports in relation to ships, aircraft and cargo

''64. (1) The regulations may make provision for the making of reports in
relation to ships and aircraft arriving at a port or airport, as the case may
be, in Australia from parts beyond the seas and to the cargo of such ships and
aircraft (including reports in respect of the cargo that is to be discharged
at a particular port or airport).

''(2) Without limiting the generality of sub-section (1), regulations for the
purposes of that sub-section providing for the making of reports may-

   (a)  prescribe the persons who are to make the reports, being persons
        having, or reasonably able to obtain, sufficient information to make
        them;

   (b)  provide that any one of 2 or more prescribed persons may make a report
        but that each of those persons is to be guilty of an offence if the
        report is not made;

   (c)  provide for 2 or more reports in relation to a ship, an aircraft or
        cargo; or

   (d)  prescribe the time within which the reports are to be made, which may
        be-

        (i)    a time prescribed in relation to all ships and aircraft, in
               relation to all ships, in relation to ships in a class of
               ships, in relation to all aircraft or in relation to aircraft
               in a class of aircraft; or

        (ii)   a time before the arrival of the relevant ship or aircraft.

''(3) Notwithstanding sub-section 270 (2), regulations for the purposes of
sub-section (1) may prescribe penalties not exceeding $2,000 in respect of any
contravention of any of those regulations.''.