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as a registered COMPILE user by signing a notice stating that the Comptroller has refused to register the applicant and setting out the reasons for the refusal.

"(6) Without limiting the generality of subsection (5), the Comptroller may refuse to register an applicant as a registered COMPILE user if the Comptroller is satisfied that the applicant does not have and is not likely to acquire within a reasonable time after making the application, computer facilities of the kind referred to in paragraph (8)(a).

"(7) Where the Comptroller registers a person as a registered COMPILE user, the registration has effect from the day on which the relevant notice was signed.

"(8) Each registered COMPILE user must, as soon as practicable after registration, enter into an agreement with Customs, setting out the terms and conditions of computer access to Customs for the purpose of communications relating to the importation of goods including:

    (a) a condition that the user will use computer facilities of a kind specified in the agreement for all computer communications with Customs relating to import entries; and

    (b) a condition that the user, when assigned a personal identification number by the Comptroller, will ensure the security of the number in a manner indicated in the agreement.

"(9) Where a registered COMPILE user enters into a COMPILE user agreement, the Comptroller must forthwith allocate to the user:

    (a) if the user is a natural person—a PIN number or sufficient PIN numbers for the user and each employee of the user who is nominated to Customs in accordance with the agreement; or

    (b) if the user is not a natural person—sufficient PIN numbers for each employee of the user who is nominated to Customs in accordance with the agreement.

"(10) A registered COMPILE user who is a licensed customs agent under Part XI of this Act must not allocate a PIN number to an employee of that agent unless the employee is himself or herself a licensed customs agent under that Part.

"(11) Where, at any time the Comptroller becomes satisfied that a person who is a registered COMPILE user has failed to comply:

    (a) with an obligation imposed on the user under this Act; or

    (b) with a term of the applicable COMPILE user agreement;

the Comptroller may cancel the allocation of all or any of the PIN numbers allocated to the user by sending a notice that the allocation has been cancelled and setting out the reasons for that cancellation.

"(12) The cancellation of the allocation to a registered COMPILE user of a PIN number or PIN numbers has effect from the day the relevant notice was signed.

"(13) The Comptroller must, as soon as practicable after signing a