Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00155:section:64:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00155
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 64 (pt 2/2)
Character Range: 171998–173868

prescribed period before that time.
 (8) For the purposes of paragraph (7)(b), the prescribed period before the estimated time of arrival of an aircraft is:
 (a) if the flight from the last airport is likely to take not less than 3 hours—3 hours or such other period as is prescribed by the regulations; or
 (b) if the flight from the last airport is likely to take less than 3 hours:
 (i) one hour or such other period as is prescribed by the regulations; or
 (ii) if the flight is of a kind described in regulations made for the purposes of this subparagraph—such shorter period as is specified in those regulations.
 (9) A documentary report must:
 (a) be in writing; and
 (b) be in an approved form; and
 (c) be communicated to the Department by sending or giving it to an officer doing duty in relation to the reporting of ships or aircraft at the port or airport at which the ship or aircraft is expected to arrive; and
 (d) contain such information as is required by the form; and
 (e) be signed in a manner specified in the form.
 (10) An electronic report must communicate such information as is set out in an approved statement.
 (11) The Comptroller‑General of Customs may approve different forms for documentary reports, and different statements for electronic reports, to be made under subsections (9) and (10) in different circumstances, by different kinds of operators of ships or aircraft or in respect of different kinds of ships or aircraft.
 (12) An operator of a ship or aircraft who intentionally contravenes this section commits an offence punishable, on conviction, by a penalty not exceeding 120 penalty units.
 (13) An operator of a ship or aircraft who contravenes this section commits an offence punishable, on conviction, by a penalty not exceeding 60 penalty units.
 (14) An offence against subsection (13) is an offence of strict liability.