Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00155:section:269m
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00155
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 269M
Character Range: 1685603–1688055

269M  Comptroller‑General of Customs may invite submissions or seek other information, documents or material
 (1) If the Comptroller‑General of Customs considers that, in relation to a particular TCO application, a person may have reason to oppose the making of the TCO to which the application relates, he or she may, by notice in writing, invite the person to lodge a written submission with the Comptroller‑General of Customs within a period specified in the notice ending not later than 150 days after the gazettal day.
 (2) A submission must:
 (a) be in writing; and
 (b) be in an approved form; and
 (c) contain such information as the form requires; and
 (d) be signed in the manner indicated in the form.
 (3) A submission:
 (a) must be lodged with the Comptroller‑General of Customs in the same manner, and is taken to be lodged on the same day, as is specified in relation to a TCO application; and
 (b) must have the day of its lodgement recorded.
 (4) If the Comptroller‑General of Customs considers that, in relation to a particular TCO application, any person (including the applicant or a person who has lodged a submission with the Comptroller‑General of Customs) may be able to supply information or produce a document or material relevant to the consideration of the application, the Comptroller‑General of Customs may, by notice in writing, request the supply of the information in writing or the production of the document or material within a period specified in the notice and ending not later than 150 days after the gazettal day.
 (5) If a person refuses or fails to lodge a submission under subsection (1) or to supply information or produce a document or material under subsection (4) within the period allowed but subsequently lodges that submission, supplies the information or produces the document or material, the Comptroller‑General of Customs must not take that submission, information, document or material into account in determining whether to make a TCO.
 (6) At any time during the period of 150 days starting on the gazettal day, the Comptroller‑General of Customs may, for the purpose of dealing with a TCO application, and despite Part 6 of the Australian Border Force Act 2015, give a copy of all, or of a part, of the application to a prescribed organisation with a view to obtaining the advice of the organisation in relation to the question whether there are producers in Australia of substitutable goods.