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or a withdrawal of such an entry that is transmitted to Customs by computer:

    (a) must be transmitted using the COMPILE computer system during a time when, under regulations made for the purpose of section 28, a person can transmit a computer import entry to Customs; and

    (b) must be signed by transmitting, in relation to the entry or the withdrawal, the registered COMPILE user's PIN number; and

    (c) must communicate such information as is set out in an approved statement relating to that communication.

"(2) For the purposes of this Act, an import entry or a withdrawal of such an entry is taken to have been communicated to Customs by computer when an import entry advice or an acknowledgment of a withdrawal is transmitted by Customs using the COMPILE computer system to the registered COMPILE user whose PIN number was transmitted in relation to the entry or withdrawal.".

Failure to make entries

16. Section 72 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from paragraph (4)(b) "section 39" and substituting "section 71B".

Breaking Bulk

17. Section 73 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from subsection (3) "section 39" and substituting "section 71B".

Insertion of new Division

18.(1) After section 77 of the Principal Act the following Division is inserted:

"Division 4A—The use of computers for import entry purposes

Registered COMPILE users

"77A.(1) To communicate with Customs by computer for a purpose identified in Division 4, a person must be a registered COMPILE user.

"(2) A person wishing to become a registered COMPILE user may apply to the Comptroller to be so registered.

"(3) An application must:

    (a) be in writing; and

    (b) be in an approved form; and

    (c) contain such information as the form requires; and

    (d) be signed in the manner indicated in the form.

"(4) The Comptroller may require an applicant for registration to give such additional information as the Comptroller considers necessary

for the purposes of this Act and may refuse to register the person until the information is given to the satisfaction of the Comptroller.

"(5) Where an application is made to the Comptroller under this section, the Comptroller must, having regard to that application and, where additional information is supplied in response to a request under subsection (4), to that additional information:

    (a) register the applicant as a registered COMPILE user by signing a notice stating that the applicant is a registered COMPILE user; or

    (b) refuse to register the applicant as a registered COMPILE user by signing a notice stating that the Comptroller has refused to register the applicant and setting out the reasons for the refusal.

"(6) Without limiting the generality of subsection (5), the Comptroller may refuse to