Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00829:reg:15:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00829
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 15 (pt 1/3)
Character Range: 79768–82476

15  Notice of goods to be unloaded in Norfolk Island, Christmas Island or Cocos (Keeling) Islands

Application
 (1) This section makes provision in relation to a notice of goods (the goods) that are, or are intended to be:
 (a) brought into Norfolk Island, Christmas Island or Cocos (Keeling) Islands (the relevant external Territory) on an aircraft or vessel from a place outside the relevant external Territory (including a place that is in another part of Australian territory); and
 (b) unloaded at a landing place or port in the relevant external Territory.
Note 1: Under the Biosecurity (Movements between Parts of Australian Territory) Declaration 2016 and subsection 618(1) of the Act, goods that move from certain parts of Australian territory to another part of Australian territory (for example, from a place on mainland Australia to Christmas Island) are treated as having entered Australian territory from outside Australian territory.
Note 2: A failure to give a notice containing the information referred to in this section in relation to the goods may contravene subsection 120(5) of the Act.
Note 3: Notice is not required to be given in relation to certain kinds of goods (see section 16).
Note 4: This section applies in relation to goods that are, or are intended to be, brought into Norfolk Island on or after 1 July 2016 and unloaded at a landing place or port in Norfolk Island (see subsection 4(2)).

Who may give notice
 (2) Each of the following persons is prescribed for the purposes of subsection 120(2) of the Act in relation to the goods:
 (a) the operator of the aircraft or vessel on which the goods are, or are intended to be, brought into the relevant external Territory;
 (b) each slot charterer (if any) who arranged for the transport of the goods into the relevant external Territory;
 (c) each freight forwarder (if any) who arranged for the transport of the goods into the relevant external Territory;
 (d) each person who is responsible for arranging to bring the goods into the relevant external Territory;
 (e) each customs broker (if any) who arranged for the goods to be brought into the relevant external Territory.

Information that must be included in notice
 (3) The information in relation to the goods that must be included in the notice is the information prescribed in subsection (4) that the person giving the notice is aware of or could reasonably be expected to be aware of.
 (4) For subsection (3), the information in relation to the goods is as follows:
 (a) information identifying the aircraft (including the flight number) or vessel (including the voyage number);
 (b) the place where the goods were, or are intended to be, loaded onto the aircraft