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the owner of the goods concerned; and

    (b) be communicated to Customs:

         (i) by giving it to an officer doing duty in relation to entries under this Part; or

         (ii) by leaving it at a place that has been allocated for lodgment of import entries in a Customs Office;

    at the place at which the goods are to be delivered for home consumption, warehousing, or transhipment.

"(3) A computer import entry must be transmitted by a registered COMPILE user as the owner, or on behalf of the owner, of the goods concerned.

"(4) Despite the fact that any law of the Commonwealth, including this Act, provides that the importation of particular goods into Australia is prohibited unless a permission (however it is described) to import those goods is produced to an officer of Customs, that obligation will, in such cases as are prescribed, be taken to have been complied with if the permission obtained in respect of those goods is adequately identified in the information communicated to Customs in an import entry relating to those goods.

"(5) Nothing in subsection (4) affects any power of an officer of Customs, under this Act, to require the production of such permission.

"(6) When an import entry is, or is taken under section 71L to have been, communicated to Customs, and the goods to which the entry relates have been imported or have been brought to the first port or airport in Australia at which any goods are to be discharged, the goods are taken to have been entered.

"(7) When an import entry is, or is taken under section 71L to have been, communicated to Customs before the goods to which the entry relates have been brought to the first port or airport in Australia at which any goods are to be discharged, the goods are taken to have been entered only when they are brought to that port or airport.

Authority to deal with goods entered under section 71A

"71B.(1) Where an entry in respect of goods has been given or transmitted to Customs, Customs must give an import entry advice, by document or computer, in accordance with this section.

"(2) An import entry advice relating to goods entered by documentary import entry:

    (a) must be given to the owner of the goods or be made available for collection by leaving it at a place in a Customs office that has been allocated for collection of such advices; and

    (b) must contain:

         (i) a statement to the effect that, subject to payment of any designated amount, the goods will be cleared for home consumption, warehousing, or transhipment; or

         (ii) a statement that the goods are directed for further examination.

"(3) An