Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024L00958:clause:1_13a
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024L00958
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 13A
Character Range: 2800–4944

13A  Goods for members etc. of a Timor-Leste Visiting Force (item 11)

By-law
 (1) This section may be cited as Customs By‑law No. 2400064.

Prescribed goods
 (2) For the purposes of item 11, the following are goods to which that item applies:
 (a) personal effects, furniture and household goods of a member or a dependant of the member, other than any of the following:
 (i) motor vehicles;
 (ii) cigarettes, cigars or tobacco;
 (iii) spirituous liquors;
 (b) a motor vehicle.

Conditions
 (3) Item 11 applies to those goods covered by paragraph (2)(a) subject to the following conditions:
 (a) the goods were imported during the period of six months beginning on the day a person covered by paragraph (2)(a) first arrived in Australia;
 (b) the goods remain in the use, ownership and possession of the person;
 (c) the goods must not be transferred to another person, operated, sold, traded, exchanged, hired out, donated or otherwise disposed of for financial gain in Australia unless prior written approval has been obtained from the Collector.
 (4) Item 11 applies to the goods covered by paragraph (2)(b) subject to the following conditions:
 (a) only one motor vehicle may be imported by the member;
 (b) a motor vehicle imported by a member must not be transferred to another person, operated, sold, traded, exchanged, hired out, donated or otherwise disposed of for financial gain in Australia unless prior written approval has been obtained from the Collector.

Definitions
 (5) In this section:
Agreement means the Agreement between the Government of Australia and the Government of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste on Cooperation in the Field of Defence and the Status of Visiting Forces, done at Canberra on 7 September 2022.
Note: The Agreement could in 2024 be viewed on the Australian Parliament House website (http://www.aph.gov.au).
civilian component has the meaning given by Article 1 of the Agreement.
dependant has the meaning given by Article 1 of the Agreement.
member means a member of a Timor-Leste Visiting Force or of its civilian component.
Visiting Force has the meaning given by Article 1 of the Agreement.