Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00155:section:83:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00155
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 83 (pt 2/2)
Character Range: 408909–411133

removed in accordance with paragraph (f), by notice in writing to the last holder of the licence, require him or her to pay to the Commonwealth in respect of the cost of the removal such fee as the Comptroller‑General of Customs determines having regard to that cost.
 (3) Subject to subsection (4), where a warehouse licence has not been renewed and goods remain in the former warehouse, the Comptroller‑General of Customs must by notice:
 (a) published on the Department's website; and
 (b) published in the Gazette; and
 (c) published in a newspaper circulating in the locality in which the former warehouse is situated;
inform the owners of goods in the former warehouse:
 (d) that they are required, within a time specified in the notice or any further time allowed by the Comptroller‑General of Customs, to:
 (i) pay to the Collector duty payable in respect of their goods in the former warehouse; or
 (ii) remove their goods in the former warehouse to another place in accordance with permission obtained from the Collector; and
 (e) that, if they do not comply with the requirements of the notice, their goods in that former warehouse will be sold.
 (4) Where the Comptroller‑General of Customs is satisfied that all the goods in a former warehouse the licence in respect of which has not been renewed are the property of the person who held the licence, the notice referred to in subsection (3) need not be published as mentioned in that subsection but shall be:
 (a) served, either personally or by post, on that person; or
 (b) served personally on a person who, at the time of the expiration of the licence, apparently participated in the management or control of the former warehouse.
 (5) Where the owner of goods to which a notice under subsection (3) applies fails to comply with the requirements of the notice within the time specified in the notice or any further time allowed by the Comptroller‑General of Customs, the goods may be sold by a Collector.
 (6) If an amount that the last holder of a licence is required to pay in accordance with a notice under paragraph (2)(e) or (g) is not paid, that amount may be recovered as a debt due to the Commonwealth by action in a court of competent jurisdiction.