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(b), the owner is, in accordance with subsection 119c (1), taken to have withdrawn the original entry but this Act has effect:

     (a) as if the amended entry had been communicated to Customs under section 114; and

     (b) as if an authority to deal with the goods to which the amended entry relates in accordance with the amended entry had been granted under section 114c;

on the day, or the respective days, on which the original entry was communicated and the original authority to deal was granted.".

Insertion of new section

17. After section 117 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:

Submanifests may be prepared before goods are exported

"117a. (1) A person involved in the exportation of goods otherwise than as the master or owner of the ship, or the pilot or owner of the aircraft, in which those goods are to be exported, may, for the purpose of facilitating the obtaining of a Certificate of Clearance in respect of that ship or aircraft so as to enable that exportation, prepare and communicate to Customs, either by document or by computer, a submanifest in respect of those goods.

  "(2) A documentary submanifest must:

     (a) be communicated to Customs by sending or giving it to an officer doing duty in respect of the clearance of ships or aircraft; and

   (b) be in an approved form; and

   (c) contain such information as is required by the form; and

   (d) be signed by the person compiling the submanifest.

   "(3) A computer submanifest must:

     (a) be transmitted by a registered EXIT user as, or on behalf of, the person referred to in subsection (1); and

     (b) be transmitted to Customs using the EXIT computer system; and

     (c) communicate such information as is set out in an approved statement; and

     (d) be signed by transmitting the registered EXIT user's identifying code.

"(4) When an officer receives a documentary submanifest from the person who compiled it, he or she must acknowledge its receipt by giving the compiler a notice in writing specifying a submanifest number for inclusion in any outward manifest purportedly relating to the goods concerned.

"(5) When a computer submanifest is transmitted to the Customs, the Customs must transmit to the compiler of the submanifest a notice acknowledging its receipt and giving the compiler a submanifest number for inclusion in any outward manifest purportedly relating to the goods concerned.".

Requisites for obtaining Certificate of Clearance

  18. Section 119 of the Principal Act is amended:

     (a) by omitting paragraph (1) (a) and substituting the following paragraph:

          "(a) the master or owner of the ship or the pilot or owner of the aircraft must communicate to Customs, by document or by computer,