Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00155:section:183cq:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00155
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 183CQ (pt 1/2)
Character Range: 1170114–1172802

183CQ  Investigation of matters relating to a broker's licence
 (1) The Comptroller‑General of Customs may give notice in accordance with this section to a customs broker if the Comptroller‑General of Customs has reasonable grounds to believe that:
 (a) the customs broker has been convicted of a prescribed offence; or
 (b) the customs broker, being a natural person, is an undischarged bankrupt; or
 (ba) the customs broker, being a natural person, has been refused a transport security identification card, or has had such a card suspended or cancelled, within the 10 years immediately preceding the giving of the notice; or
 (c) the customs broker, being a company, is in liquidation; or
 (d) the customs broker has ceased to perform the duties of a customs broker in a satisfactory and responsible manner; or
 (e) the customs broker is guilty of conduct that is an abuse of the rights and privileges arising from his or her licence; or
 (f) a customs broker licence charge payable in respect of the licence remains unpaid more than 28 days after the day the charge was due to be paid; or
 (g) the customs broker made a false or misleading statement in the application for the licence; or
 (h) the customs broker has not complied with a condition imposed on the grant or renewal of the licence and, having been served with a notice under subsection 183CG(8) in relation to the non‑compliance with that condition, the customs broker has not, within the time specified in the notice, complied with that condition; or
 (j) the customs broker has not, within the time specified in a notice under section 183CP, complied with that notice;
or it otherwise appears to the Comptroller‑General of Customs to be necessary for the protection of the revenue or otherwise in the public interest to give the notice.
 (2) Without limiting the generality of paragraph (1)(d), a customs broker shall be taken, for the purposes of that paragraph, to have ceased to perform the duties of a customs broker in a satisfactory and responsible manner if the documents prepared by the customs broker for the purposes of this Act contain errors that are unreasonable having regard to the nature or frequency of those errors.
 (3) Notice in accordance with this section to a customs broker shall be in writing and shall be served, either personally or by post, on the customs broker.
 (4) A notice in accordance with this section to a customs broker shall state:
 (a) the grounds on which the notice is given;
 (b) that the person who gave the notice intends forthwith to refer to the Committee, for investigation and report to the Comptroller‑General of Customs, the question whether the Comptroller‑General of