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and substituting "a cargo automation system";

    (e)     by omitting paragraph (5)(c) and substituting the following paragraph:

         "(c) be signed by transmitting the identifying code of the person making the report.";

    (f) by omitting subsections (6) and (7) and substituting the following subsection:

     "(6) Nothing in this section prevents the Comptroller-General from approving different approved forms and different approved statements for the cargo reports of different kinds of owner of a ship or aircraft.".

Insertion of new section

8. After section 64AB of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:

Amendment of cargo reports

"64ABA.(1) At any time after a cargo report is communicated to Customs but before the delivery of the goods into home consumption or warehousing covered by the report, the person who communicated the report to Customs may, by document or by computer, communicate a variation of the report to Customs.

"(2) If a variation of a cargo report will result in a decrease in the quantity of any kind of goods previously covered by the report, the person communicating the variation must, as soon as practicable after so doing but not later than 90 days after so doing, also communicate to Customs an explanation of why the quantity of goods of that kind is so decreased.

"(3) The variation and, if it is dealt with at a separate time, the explanation, must:

     (a)     if it is a variation of, or an explanation relating to, a documentary cargo report—be communicated to Customs, and be signed, as required for the original cargo report under subsection 64AB(4); and

     (b)     if it is a variation of, or an explanation relating to, a computer cargo report—be transmitted to Customs, and signed, as required for the original cargo report under subsection 64AB(5).

"(4) A variation of a report is taken to have been communicated to Customs at the time when, in accordance with section 64AD, it would be taken to be so communicated if it constituted a complete cargo report and, with effect from that time, the original cargo report has effect as if it had been communicated incorporating the variations.".

Communication of reports to Customs

  9. Section 64AD of the Principal Act is amended:

     (a)     by omitting from subsections (1) and (2) "an impending" (wherever occurring) and substituting "a documentary impending";

     (b)    by inserting in subsection (3) "a computer impending arrival report," before "a computer cargo report".

Insertion of Division

  10. After Division 3 the following Division is inserted in Part IV:

"Division 3A—The use of computers in sea and air cargo automation systems

Sea and air cargo automation systems

"67A.(1) Customs must establish and maintain a computer system, to be known as the Sea Cargo Automation System, for purposes that