CUSTOMS AND EXCISE LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 1990 No. 111 of 1990 - SECT 17
Insertion of new section
CUSTOMS AND EXCISE LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 1990 No. 111 of 1990 - SECT 17
Insertion of new section
17. After section 117 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:
Submanifests may be prepared before goods are exported
"117A. (1) A person involved in the exportation of goods otherwise than as the
master or owner of the ship, or the pilot or owner of the aircraft, in which
those goods are to be exported, may, for the purpose of facilitating the
obtaining of a Certificate of Clearance in respect of that ship or aircraft so
as to enable that exportation, prepare and communicate to Customs, either by
document or by computer, a submanifest in respect of those goods.
"(2) A documentary submanifest must:
(a) be communicated to Customs by sending or giving it to an officer doing
duty in respect of the clearance of ships or aircraft; and
(b) be in an approved form; and
(c) contain such information as is required by the form; and
(d) be signed by the person compiling the submanifest.
"(3) A computer submanifest must:
(a) be transmitted by a registered EXIT user as, or on behalf of, the
person referred to in subsection (1); and
(b) be transmitted to Customs using the EXIT computer system; and
(c) communicate such information as is set out in an approved statement;
and
(d) be signed by transmitting the registered EXIT user's identifying code.
"(4) When an officer receives a documentary submanifest from the person who
compiled it, he or she must acknowledge its receipt by giving the compiler a
notice in writing specifying a submanifest number for inclusion in any outward
manifest purportedly relating to the goods concerned.
"(5) When a computer submanifest is transmitted to the Customs, the Customs
must transmit to the compiler of the submanifest a notice acknowledging its
receipt and giving the compiler a submanifest number for inclusion in any
outward manifest purportedly relating to the goods concerned.".
