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Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 279 (pt 1/88)
Character Range: 2104353–2107251

279  Reports about recoverable payments
 (1) The Secretary of the Department must cause the following information to be included in the Department's annual report for a financial year:
 (a) the number of payments under subsection 278(1) that APS employees in the Department are aware of that were made during that financial year;
 (b) the total amount of the payments referred to in paragraph (a);
 (c) the number of payments under subsection 278(1) that APS employees in the Department became aware of during that financial year that were made during an earlier financial year;
 (d) the total amount of the payments referred to in paragraph (c);
 (e) for each payment referred to in paragraph (c)—the financial year in which the payment was made.
 (2) Information is not required in the Department's annual report if no APS employee in the Department is aware of any payments referred to in paragraph (1)(a) or (c).

Schedule I—The Commonwealth of Australia

Security to the Commonwealth
By this Security the subscribers are, pursuant to the Customs Act 1901, bound to the Commonwealth of Australia in the sum of—[here insert amount or mode of ascertaining amount intended to be paid in default of compliance with condition]—subject only to this condition that if—[here insert the condition of the security]—then this security shall be thereby discharged.*

Dated the [insert date].

Names and descriptions of subscribers  Signatures of subscribers  Signatures of witnesses

     *NOTE—If liability is not intended to be joint and several and for the full amount, here state what is intended as, for example, thus—"The liability of the subscribers is joint only," or "the liability of (mentioning subscriber) is limited to (here state amount of limit of liability or mode of ascertaining limit)."

Customs Act 1901

No. 6, 1901

Compilation No. 185

Compilation date: 21 February 2025

                Includes amendments: Act No. 11, 2025

This compilation is in 5 volumes

Volume 1: sections 1–126C
Volume 2: sections 126D–183U
Volume 3: sections 183UA–269SK
Volume 4: sections 269SM–279
 Schedule
Volume 5: Endnotes

Each volume has its own contents

About this compilation

This compilation

This is a compilation of the Customs Act 1901 that shows the text of the law as amended and in force on 21 February 2025 (the compilation date).

The notes at the end of this compilation (the endnotes) include information about amending laws and the amendment history of provisions of the compiled law.

Uncommenced amendments

The effect of uncommenced amendments is not shown in the text of the compiled law. Any uncommenced amendments affecting the law are accessible on the Register (www.legislation.gov.au). The details of amendments made up to, but not commenced at, the compilation date are underlined in the endnotes. For more information on any uncommenced amendments, see