Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2008C00476:clause:3_64ab:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2008C00476
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 3 cl 64AB (pt 1/3)
Character Range: 177723–180215

64AB  Cargo reports

 (1) This section applies to a ship or aircraft in respect of a voyage or flight to Australia from a place outside Australia.

 (2) If the ship or aircraft is due to arrive at a port or airport in Australia (whether the first port or airport or any subsequent port or airport on the same voyage or flight), each cargo reporter must report to Customs, in accordance with this section, particulars of all goods that the cargo reporter has arranged to be carried on the ship or aircraft on the voyage or flight and that are intended to be unloaded from the ship or aircraft at the port or airport other than:
 (a) goods that are accompanied personal or household effects of a passenger or member of the crew; or
 (b) ship's stores or aircraft's stores.

 (3) A cargo report that is made by a person during the general moratorium period, or is made by a person during a further moratorium period that has been granted to the person, may be a documentary report or an electronic report.

 (4) A cargo report to which subsection (3) does not apply must be an electronic report.

 (5) If the information required by an approved form to be contained in a documentary cargo report, or required by an approved statement to be communicated electronically, refers to particulars of the consignor or consignee of goods:
 (a) the reference in the form or statement to the consignor of goods is a reference to a supplier of goods who is located outside Australia and:
 (i) initiates the sending of goods to a person in Australia; or
 (ii) complies with a request from a person in Australia to send goods to the person; and
 (b) the reference in the form or statement to the consignee of goods is a reference to the person who is the ultimate recipient of goods that have been sent from outside Australia, whether or not the person ordered or paid for the goods.

 (6) The CEO may approve different forms or statements for the cargo reports to be made in different circumstances or by different kinds of cargo reporters.

 (7) The form or statement approved for a report by a special reporter in relation to low value cargo of a particular kind must not require the special reporter to include information relating to cargo of that kind at a level of specificity below the level of a submaster air waybill or an ocean bill of lading, as the case requires.

 (8) A cargo report is to be made not later than:
 (a) if the cargo is carried on a ship:
 (i) 24 hours or such other period as is