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with the Customs in accordance with subsection (4), withdraw the application in whole or in part.

     "(4) An application under subsection (1) or (2) or a notice under subsection (3) withdrawing such an application 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.

     "(5) An application, or a notice withdrawing an application, may be lodged with the Customs:

         (a)     by giving it to an officer doing duty in relation to the receipt of dumping applications; or

         (b)    by posting it by pre-paid post to a postal address specified by Customs in the approved form; or

         (c)     by sending it by electronic facsimile to a facsimile number specified by Customs in the approved form;

     and the application or notice is taken to have been received by Customs when the application or notice, or a facsimile of the application or notice, is first received by an officer doing duty in relation to the receipt of dumping applications.".

(2) Subsection 269TB(3) of the Principal Act and any approved form made for the purposes of that subsection continue to apply in relation to any application under subsection (1) or (2) that is made before this section commences as if the amendments made by this section had not been made.

Consideration of application

  13. Section 269TC of the Principal Act is amended:

  (a) by omitting from subsection (1) all the words preceding

     paragraph (a) and substituting the following:

     "The Comptroller shall, within 25 days, or, if another period is

  prescribed, within that other period, after Customs receives an application under subsection 269TB(1) in respect of goods, examine the application and, if the Comptroller is not satisfied, having regard to the matters contained in the application and to any other information that the Comptroller considers relevant:";

  (b) by omitting paragraph (1)(c) and substituting the following paragraph:

    "(c) that there appear to be reasonable grounds:

           (i) for the publication of a dumping duty notice or a countervailing duty notice, as the case requires, in respect of the goods the subject of the application; or

           (ii) for the publication of such a notice upon the importation into Australia of such goods;";

  (c) by omitting from subsection (2) all the words preceding paragraph (a) and substituting the following:

  "The Comptroller shall, within 25 days, or, if another period is prescribed, within that other period, after Customs receives an application by the Government of a country under subsection 269TB(2) in respect of goods, examine the application and, if the Comptroller is not satisfied, having regard to the matters contained in the application and to any other information