Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A04325:body:0:p16
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A04325
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commercial document to an officer doing duty in relation to import entries under this section, the officer must deal with the document and then return the document to that person.

Application for movement permission

"71E.(1) Where particular goods, or goods of a particular kind, are, or after their importation will be, subject to Customs control, application may be made to Customs, in writing, in accordance with this section, for permission to move those goods, or goods of that kind, or to move them after their importation, to a place specified in the application.

"(2) A movement application must:

    (a) be made by the owner of the goods concerned; and

    (b) be communicated to Customs by giving it to an officer doing duty in relation to import entries or to the movement of goods subject to Customs control.

"(3) When an application is communicated to Customs under subsection (2), an officer of Customs must, by notice in writing:

    (a) give the applicant permission to move the goods to which the application relates in accordance with the application either absolutely or subject to such conditions as are specified in the notice; or

    (b) refuse the application and set out in the notice the reasons for that refusal.

"(4) Where goods are moved to a place other than a warehouse in accordance with a permission under subsection (3), an officer of Customs may, at any time while the goods remain under Customs control, direct in writing that they be moved from that place to a warehouse specified in the direction within a period specified in the direction.

"(5) If goods are not moved in accordance with such a direction, an officer of Customs may arrange for the goods to be moved to the warehouse specified in the direction or to any other warehouse.

"(6) Where an officer of Customs has arranged for goods to be moved to a warehouse, Customs has a lien on the goods for any expenses incurred in connection with their removal to the warehouse and for any warehouse rent and charges incurred in relation to the goods.

Withdrawal of import entries

"71F.(1) At any time after an import entry is communicated to Customs and before the goods to which it relates are dealt with in accordance with the entry, a withdrawal of the entry may be communicated to Customs by document or computer.

"(2) A documentary withdrawal of an import entry must:

    (a) be communicated by the person by whom, or on whose behalf, the entry was communicated; and

    (b) be communicated to Customs by giving it to an officer doing duty in relation to import entries.

"(3) A computer withdrawal of an import entry in respect of particular