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Click on a link below to read the relevant section of the Customs Act 1901.
- Section 4C Customs Act 1901 Identity Cards
- Section 5A Customs Act 1901 Attachment of Overseas Resources Installations
- Section 5B Customs Act 1901 Installation of Overseas Sea Installations
- Section 20 Customs Act 1901 Waterfront Area Control
- Section 33 Customs Act 1901 Moving Goods Subject to Customs Control
- Section 33A Customs Act 1901 Using Resource Installations Subject to Customs Control
- Section 33B Customs Act 1901 Using Sea Installations Subject to Customs Control
- Section 33C Customs Act 1901 Obstructing Commonwealth Property in Customs Place
- Section 36 Customs Act 1901 Failure to Keep Goods Safely or Account for Goods
- Section 50 Customs Act 1901 Prohibition of the Importation of Goods
- Section 51 Customs Act 1901 Prohibited Imports
- Section 58 Customs Act 1901 Ships Not Entering Ports or Airports
- Section 58A Customs Act 1901 Direct Journeys Between Installations and External Places
- Section 58B Customs Act 1901 Direct Journeys Between Research Installations and External Places
- Section 60 Customs Act 1901 Boarding Stations
- Section 61 Customs Act 1901 Facility for Boarding
- Section 61A Customs Act 1901 Owner to Facilitate Boarding
- Section 62 Customs Act 1901 Ships to Quickly Come to Place of Unlading
- Section 63 Customs Act 1901 Ship or Aircraft Not to be Moved Without Authority
- Section 64 Customs Act 1901 Impending Airport Arrival
- Section 64A Customs Act 1901 Ships or Aircraft Arriving at Certain Places
- Section 64AA Customs Act 1901 Arrival Reports
- Section 64AAA Customs Act 1901 Report of Stores and Prohibited Goods
- Section 64AAB Customs Act 1901 Notifying Customs of Particulars of Cargo Reporters
- Section 64AAC Customs Act 1901 Report to Customs of Persons Engaged to Unload Cargo
- Section 64AB Customs Act 1901 Cargo Reports
- Section 64ABAA Customs Act 1901 Outturn Reports
- Section 64ABAB Customs Act 1901 When Outturn Report is to be Communicated to Customs
- Section 64ABAC Customs Act 1901 Explanation of Shortlanded or Surplus Cargo
- Section 64ACA Customs Act 1901 Passenger Reports
- Section 64ACB Customs Act 1901 Crew Reports
- Section 64ADA Customs Act 1901 Disclosure of Cargo Reports to Port Authorities
- Section 64AE Customs Act 1901 Failing to Answer Questions or Produce Documents
- Section 64AF Customs Act 1901 Failing to Provide Access to Passenger Information
- Section 65 Customs Act 1901 Master or Pilot Failing to Report
- Section 66 Customs Act 1901 Failing to Deliver Derelict Goods to Officer
- Section 67 Customs Act 1901 Interfering with Derelict Goods
- Section 67EB Customs Act 1901 Registration as a Special Reporter
- Section 67EF Customs Act 1901 Failing to Store or Record Maintenance Conditions
- Section 67EG Customs Act 1901 Special Mail Order House Condition
- Section 68 Customs Act 1901 Entry of Imported Goods
- Section 68A Customs Act 1901 Goods Imported for Transhipment
- Section 69 Customs Act 1901 Like Customable Goods
- Section 70 Customs Act 1901 Special Clearance Goods
- Section 71A Customs Act 1901 Making an Import Declaration
- Section 71AAAQ Customs Act 1901 Further Self Assessed Clearance Declaration
- Section 71B Customs Act 1901 Import Declaration Processing Charges
- Section 71DB Customs Act 1901 Making a Request for Cargo Release
- Section 71DC Customs Act 1901 Liability for RCR Processing Charge
- Section 71DG Customs Act 1901 Liability for Periodic Declaration Processing Charge
- Section 71DI Customs Act 1901 Liability for Warehouse Declaration Processing Charge
- Section 71G Customs Act 1901 Goods Not to be Entered While an Entry is Outstanding
- Section 72 Customs Act 1901 Failure to Make Entries
- Section 73 Customs Act 1901 Breaking Bulk
- Section 77R Customs Act 1901 Breach of Conditions of Depot Licence
- Section 77VA Customs Act 1901 Depot Not to be Used if Depot Licence Suspended
- Section 77Y Customs Act 1901 Failing to Comply with Directions for Customs Controlled Goods
- Section 79 Customs Act 1901 Warehouse Licences
- Section 80 Customs Act 1901 Applications for Warehouse Licences
- Section 81 Customs Act 1901 Requirements for Grant of Warehouse Licence
- Section 81A Customs Act 1901 Grant of a Warehouse Licence
- Section 81B Customs Act 1901 Variation of the Place Covered by a Warehouse Licence
- Section 82 Customs Act 1901 Conditions of Warehouse Licences
- Section 82A Customs Act 1901 The CEO may Impose Additional Conditions to which a Warehouse Licence is Subject
- Section 82B Customs Act 1901 The CEO may Vary the Conditions to which a Warehouse Licence is Subject
- Section 82C Customs Act 1901 Breach of Conditions of a Warehouse Licence
- Section 83 Customs Act 1901 Duration of Warehouse Licence
- Section 84 Customs Act 1901 Renewal of Warehouse Licence
- Section 85 Customs Act 1901 Fees for Warehouse Licences
- Section 86 Customs Act 1901 Suspension of Warehouse Licences
- Section 87 Customs Act 1901 Cancellation of Warehouse Licences
- Section 90 Customs Act 1901 Obligations of Holders of Warehouse Licences
- Section 94 Customs Act 1901 Goods Not Worth Duty May Be Destroyed
- Section 95 Customs Act 1901 Revaluation
- Section 96 Customs Act 1901 Arrears of Warehouse Charges
- Section 96A Customs Act 1901 Outwards Duty Free Shops
- Section 96B Customs Act 1901 Inwards Duty Free Shops
- Section 97 Customs Act 1901 Goods for Public Exhibition
- Section 99 Customs Act 1901 Entry of Warehoused Goods
- Section 100 Customs Act 1901 Constructive Warehousing
- Section 101 Customs Act 1901 Delivery of Warehousing Authority
- Section 102 Customs Act 1901 Holder of Licence to Inform Collector of Certain Matters
- Section 102A Customs Act 1901 Notices to Customs by Holder of Warehouse Licence
- Section 104 Customs Act 1901 Customable Beverage must be entered for Warehousing
- Section 105 Customs Act 1901 Customable Beverage Entered for Home Consumption in Bulk
- Section 105A Customs Act 1901 Delivery from Customs Control of Brandy, Whisky or Rum
- Section 105B Customs Act 1901 Extinguishment of Duty on Excise-equivalent Goods
- Section 105C Customs Act 1901 Returns
- Section 105E Customs Act 1901 Use of Excise Equivalent Goods
- Section 106A Customs Act 1901 Ships and Aircraft to which this Subdivision applies
- Section 106B Customs Act 1901 Reporting 48 hrs before Ship or Aircraft is Due to Depart
- Section 106C Customs Act 1901 Report 4 Hours before Ship or Aircraft is Due to Depart
- Section 106D Customs Act 1901 Report just before Ship or Aircraft Departs
- Section 106F Customs Act 1901 Reports on Matters in Approved Statement
- Section 106G Customs Act 1901 Reports to be made Electronically
- Section 106H Customs Act 1901 Form of Reports
- Section 106J Customs Act 1901 Failing to Answer Officers Questions
- Section 112 Customs Act 1901 Prohibited Exports
- Section 112A Customs Act 1901 Controlled Substances taken to be Prohibited Exports
- Section 112B Customs Act 1901 Invalidation of Licence etc for False or Misleading Information
- Section 112BA Customs Act 1901 Notice Prohibiting Export
- Section 112C Customs Act 1901 Directions by Collector
- Section 112D Customs Act 1901 Failure to Comply with Direction
- Section 113 Customs Act 1901 Entry of Goods for Export
- Section 114 Customs Act 1901 Export Declarations
- Section 114A Customs Act 1901 Failing to Give Additional Information
- Section 114B Customs Act 1901 Failing to Comply with Export Grant
- Section 114BA Customs Act 1901 Using ACEANS in Respect of Goods
- Section 114BB Customs Act 1901 Making of Export Information Contracts
- Section 114BC Customs Act 1901 Persons Using ACEANS Failing to Declare
- Section 114C Customs Act 1901 Authority to deal with Goods entered for Export
- Section 114CA Customs Act 1901 Suspension of Authority to deal with Goods
- Section 132AA Customs Act 1901 When Import Duty must be Paid
- Section 114CB Customs Act 1901 Revocation of Suspension of Authority to Deal
- Section 114CC Customs Act 1901 Failing to Provide Additional Information Where Authority Suspended
- Section 114D Customs Act 1901 Failing to Deal with Goods in Accordance with Entry
- Section 114E Customs Act 1901 Sending Goods to Wharf or Airport to Export
- Section 114F Customs Act 1901 Notices to Customs for goods Received at Wharf or Airport
- Section 115 Customs Act 1901 Taking Goods on Board without Authority to Deal
- Section 116 Customs Act 1901 Goods not dealt with in accordance with Export Entry
- Section 116A Customs Act 1901 Goods for Export by ACEAN not Exported in time
- Section 117A Customs Act 1901 Submanifests Not Communicated to Customs
- Section 117AA Customs Act 1901 Consolidation of Goods for Export at Prescribed place
- Section 118 Customs Act 1901 Certificate of Clearance
- Section 118A Customs Act 1901 Certificate of Clearance for Ships or Aircraft
- Section 119 Customs Act 1901 Communication of Outward Manifest to Customs
- Section 119AA Customs Act 1901 Permission to Deal with Goods for Export
- Section 119D Customs Act 1901 Notification of Export Entries etc
- Section 119E Customs Act 1901 Failing to Communicate to Customs Electronically
- Section 120 Customs Act 1901 Shipment of Goods
- Section 122 Customs Act 1901 Time of Clearance
- Section 122H Customs Act 1901 Entering Premises to Examine Goods to Export
- Section 122J Customs Act 1901 Failing to Leave if Consent Withdrawn
- Section 122Q Customs Act 1901 Damaging Occupier’s Property
- Section 123 Customs Act 1901 Failing to Stop at Boarding Stations
- Section 124 Customs Act 1901 Failing to Account for Missing Goods
- Section 125 Customs Act 1901 Failing to Land at Proper Destination
- Section 126 Customs Act 1901 Failing to Provide Certificate of Landing
- Section 126C Customs Act 1901 Undersized Export Ships
- Section 126DC Customs Act 1901 CEO’s Keeping of Records of Electronic Communications
- Section 126E Customs Act 1901 Failing to Communicate to Customs when Systems Inoperative
- Section 126F Customs Act 1901 Failures to Pay Customs when Systems Inoperative
- Section 127 Customs Act 1901 Use of Ships’ and Aircraft’s Stores
- Section 128 Customs Act 1901 Unshipment of Stores
- Section 129 Customs Act 1901 Stores Taken on Board Without Approval
- Section 130B Customs Act 1901 Failing to Pay Duty on Stores
- Section 131A Customs Act 1901 Imposing Duty on Fish Caught by Australian Ships
- Section 131AA Customs Act 1901 Joint Petroleum Development Areas
- Section 149 Customs Act 1901 Duty on Goods Not Produced or Landed
- Section 153AB Customs Act 1901 Failing to Pay Duty on Alcoholic Beverages
- Section 153AD Customs Act 1901 Obscuring Alcoholic Strength
- Section 162AA Customs Act 1901 Applications to Deal with Goods Imported Temporarily without Duty
- Section 162B Customs Act 1901 Pallets used in International Transport
- Section 175 Customs Act 1901 Goods Transferred between Certain Vessels
- Section 182 Customs Act 1901 Failing to Produce Authority
- Section 183 Customs Act 1901 Liability of Agents
- Section 183A Customs Act 1901 Principal Liable for Agents Acting
- Section 183CA Customs Act 1901 Improperly Applying for a Licence
- Section 183P Customs Act 1901 Offences by Witness
- Section 183Q Customs Act 1901 Statements by Witness
- Section 184A Customs Act 1901 Power to Board a Ship
- Section 184B Customs Act 1901 Failing to Comply with Request to Board Foreign Ships
- Section 184C Customs Act 1901 Failing to Comply with Request to Board Australian Ship
- Section 184D Customs Act 1901 Request for Boarding or Landing
- Section 185 Customs Act 1901 Failing to Allow Boarding and Searching
- Section 185A Customs Act 1901 Failing to Allow Boarding and Searching on High Seas
- Section 185AA Customs Act 1901 Failing to Allow Searching of People
- Section 185B Customs Act 1901 Moving or Destroying Hazardous Ships etc.
- Section 186 Customs Act 1901 Refusing to Allow Examination of Goods under Customs Control
- Section 186A Customs Act 1901 Refusing to Allow Copying of Documents
- Section 186B Customs Act 1901 Compensating for Damage Caused by Copying
- Section 188 Customs Act 1901 Failing to Provide for Officer on Board
- Section 191 Customs Act 1901 Breaking Seals when under Customs Control
- Section 192 Customs Act 1901 Breaking Seals when Bound for Another Cwth Country
- Section 193 Customs Act 1901 Failing to Provide for Officer on Coast or Port
- Section 194 Customs Act 1901 Failing to Provide for Officer when Ship Moored
- Section 195 Customs Act 1901 Passenger Failing to Answer Question
- Section 195A Customs Act 1901 Person in Restricted Area Failing to Answer Questions
- Section 196C Customs Act 1901 Person Claiming Package Failing to Answer Questions
- Section 197 Customs Act 1901 Failing to Stop Conveyance about to Leave Customs Place
- Section 201A Customs Act 1901 Failing to Assist Access of Computer
- Section 203A Customs Act 1901 Failing to Provide Information about People Working in Restricted Areas
- Section 203HA Customs Act 1901 Failing to Provide Name or Address to Warrant Officer
- Section 203P Customs Act 1901 Making False Statements in Warrants
- Section 203Q Customs Act 1901 Offences Relating to Telephone Warrants
- Section 209A Customs Act 1901 Destruction or Concealment of Evidential Material or Forfeited Goods
- Section 210 Customs Act 1901 Resisting, Obstructing or Preventing Arrest
- Section 213 Customs Act 1901 Arrested Person or Customs Officer Failing to Provide Details
- Section 214AE Customs Act 1901 Improper Exercise of Monitoring Powers
- Section 214AF Customs Act 1901 Improper Exercise of Monitoring Powers under Warrant
- Section 214AH Customs Act 1901 Failing to Answer Questions by Monitoring Officer
- Section 214AI Customs Act 1901 Failing to Provide Assistance to Monitoring Officer
- Section 214B Customs Act 1901 Failing to Assist Customs Officers for Customs Tariff
- Section 225 Customs Act 1901 Time Limit to Commence Proceedings Against Officers
- Section 226 Customs Act 1901 Time for Commencing Action
- Section 227AA Customs Act 1901 Evidence Used in Prosecutions
- Section 227E Customs Act 1901 Improper Storage of Prohibited Items
- Section 229 Customs Act 1901 Proceeds of Drug Trafficking
- Section 231 Customs Act 1901 Assembly for Unlawful Purposes
- Section 232A Customs Act 1901 Rescuing Seized Goods and Assaulting Officers
- Section 233 Customs Act 1901 Smuggling, Importation and Exportation
- Section 233A Customs Act 1901 Allowing Use of Ship for Smuggling
- Section 233AB Customs Act 1901 Penalties for Offences against Sections 233 and 233A
- Section 233BAA Customs Act 1901 Special Offence for Tier 1 Goods
- Section 233BAB Customs Act 1901 Special Offence for Tier 2 Goods
- Section 233BABAB Customs Act 1901 Importation of UN Sanctioned Goods
- Section 233BABAC Customs Act 1901 Exportation of UN-Sanctioned Goods
- Section 233BABAD Customs Act 1901 Offences Involving Tobacco Products
- Section 233C Customs Act 1901 Giving False Information Regarding UN Sanctioned Goods
- Section 234 Customs Act 1901 Customs Offences
- Section 234A Customs Act 1901 Unauthorised Entry
- Section 234AB Customs Act 1901 Unauthorised Use of Cameras and Sound Recorders
- Section 236 Customs Act 1901 Aiders and a Bettors
- Section 237 Customs Act 1901 Attempts
- Section 239 Customs Act 1901 Penalties in Addition to Forfeitures
- Section 240 Customs Act 1901 Failing to Keep Commercial Documents
- Section 240AA Customs Act 1901 Failing to Produce Commercial Documents
- Section 240AB Customs Act 1901 Verifying Communications to Customs
- Section 240AC Customs Act 1901 Failing to Produce Record
- Section 243B Customs Act 1901 Pecuniary Penalties
- Section 243K Customs Act 1901 Contravening Restraining Orders
- Section 243SA Customs Act 1901 Failing to Answer Questions
- Section 243SB Customs Act 1901 Failing to Produce Documents or Records to Officer
- Section 243T Customs Act 1901 False Statements Resulting in Loss of Duty
- Section 243U Customs Act 1901 False Statements not Resulting in Loss of Duty
- Section 243V Customs Act 1901 False Statements in Cargo or Outturn Reports