Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2008C00476:clause:3_71l
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2008C00476
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 3 cl 71L
Character Range: 120562–121926

71L  Manner and effect of communicating with Customs electronically

 (1) An import entry, a withdrawal of an import entry, a visual examination application, a movement application, or a return for the purposes of subsection 69(5) or 70(7) that is communicated to Customs electronically must communicate such information as is set out in an approved statement.

 (2) The CEO may approve different statements for electronic communications to be made in different circumstances or by different classes of persons.

 (3) For the purposes of this Act, an import entry, a withdrawal of an import entry, or a return for the purposes of subsection 69(5) or 70(7), is taken to have been communicated to Customs electronically when an import entry advice, or an acknowledgment of the withdrawal or of the return, is communicated by Customs electronically to the person identified in the import entry, withdrawal or return as the person sending it.

 (4) A movement application that is communicated to Customs electronically must communicate such information as is set out in an approved statement.

 (5) For the purposes of this Act, a movement application is taken to have been communicated to Customs electronically when an acknowledgment of the application is communicated by Customs electronically to the person identified in the application as the person sending it.