Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025L00110:clause:1_13b
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025L00110
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 13B
Character Range: 2912–5067

13B  Goods for members etc. of a Fiji Visiting Force (item 11)

By-law
 (1) This section may be cited as Customs By‑law No. 2500016.

Prescribed goods
 (2) For the purposes of item 11, the following are goods to which that item applies:
 (a) personal effects, furniture and household goods of a member or a dependant of the member, other than any of the following:
 (i) motor vehicles;
 (ii) cigarettes, cigars or tobacco;
 (iii) spirituous liquors;
 (b) a motor vehicle.

Conditions
 (3) Item 11 applies to those goods covered by paragraph (2)(a) subject to the following conditions:
 (a) the goods were imported during the period of six months beginning on the day a person covered by paragraph (2)(a) first arrived in Australia; and
 (b) the goods:
 (i) remain in the use, ownership and possession of the person; or
 (iii) are to be consumed by the person; and
 (c) the goods must not be transferred to another person, operated, sold, traded, exchanged, hired out, donated or otherwise disposed of for financial gain in Australia unless prior written approval has been obtained from the Collector.
 (4) Item 11 applies to the goods covered by paragraph (2)(b) subject to the following conditions:
 (a) only one motor vehicle may be imported by the member;
 (b) a motor vehicle imported by a member must not be transferred to another person, operated, sold, traded, exchanged, hired out, donated or otherwise disposed of for financial gain in Australia unless prior written approval has been obtained from a Collector.

Definitions
 (5) In this section:
Agreement means the Agreement between the Government of Australia and the Government of the Republic of Fiji on Cooperation in the Field of Defence and the Status of Visiting Forces, done on 20 October 2022.
Note: The Agreement could in 2025 be viewed on the Australian Parliament House website (http://www.aph.gov.au).
civilian component has the meaning given by Article 1 of the Agreement.
dependant has the meaning given by Article 1 of the Agreement.
member means a member of a Fiji Visiting Force or of its civilian component.
Visiting Force has the meaning given by Article 1 of the Agreement.