Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00155:section:86:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00155
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 86 (pt 2/6)
Character Range: 415521–418136

on and from the service of the notice.
 (1AC) If a warehouse licence covers more than one warehouse, the Comptroller‑General of Customs may give a notice under subsection (1AD) to the licence holder if the Comptroller‑General has reasonable grounds for believing that:
 (a) the physical security of a warehouse covered by the licence is no longer adequate having regard to the matters referred to in paragraph 81(1A)(c); or
 (b) the plant and equipment used in a warehouse covered by the licence are such that the protection of the revenue in relation to goods in the warehouse is inadequate; or
 (c) where the licence is held by a company—a director, officer or shareholder of the company who participates in the management or control of a warehouse covered by the licence is not a fit and proper person to so participate; or
 (d) an employee of the holder of the licence, being an employee who participates in the management or control of a warehouse covered by the licence, is not a fit and proper person to so participate; or
 (e) a condition to which the licence is subject that relates to a warehouse covered by the licence has not been complied with; or
 (f) the licence holder has not, for a period of at least 3 years, warehoused excise‑equivalent goods at a warehouse covered by the licence.
 (1AD) A notice under this subsection:
 (a) must state that, if the licence holder wants the warehouse licence to continue to cover the warehouse, the licence holder may, within 7 days after the day on which the notice was served, give to the Comptroller‑General of Customs at an address specified in the notice a written statement showing cause why the warehouse should continue to be covered by the licence; and
 (b) may, if it appears to the Comptroller‑General of Customs to be necessary to do so:
 (i) for the protection of the revenue; or
 (ii) for ensuring compliance with the Customs Acts, any other law of the Commonwealth prescribed by the regulations or a law of a State or Territory prescribed by the regulations;
  state that the licence is suspended in relation to the warehouse.
 (1AE) If a notice under subsection (1AD) states that a licence is suspended in relation to a warehouse, the licence is suspended in relation to the warehouse on and from the service of the notice.
 (1A) The Comptroller‑General of Customs must, in considering whether a person is a fit and proper person for the purposes of paragraph (1)(c) or (d) or (1AC)(c) or (d), have regard to:
 (a) any conviction of the person of an offence against this Act committed:
 (i) where the licence has not been renewed—after the grant