Commonwealth legislation

Customs Act 1901 - CEO Instrument of Approval No. 1 of 2004

RepealedCTH

This Act has been repealed and is no longer in force. It is retained for historical reference.

Jurisdiction

Commonwealth

Collection

legislative instrument

Plain English Summary

1/10 complexity

This document formally designates the Christmas Island Post Office as an official location where customs officers can examine international mail.

Under the Customs Act (Christmas Island version), officers may only open and inspect international mail at specifically approved places. This instrument grants that approval for the post office at Canberra Place, allowing customs to check incoming and outgoing mail for prohibited items, duty evasion, or other compliance issues.

The approval was made by the Comptroller of the Indian Ocean Territories Customs Service and took effect when published in the government gazette.

JSON API

Deep dive

Want the full deep dive?

Zoe can write the in-depth analysis on top of the summary above: how it works, who it affects and what each part actually does.

Current sections

Direct links to the current provisions in Customs Act 1901 - CEO Instrument of Approval No. 1 of 2004.

Customs Act 1901 - CEO Instrument of Approval No. 1 of 2004

meta-content-style-type: text/css meta-content-type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8 meta-generator: Aspose.Words for .NET 20.2 title: COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?>

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

INSTRUMENT OF APPROVAL NO. 1 OF 2004

APPROVAL OF INTERNATIONAL MAIL CENTRE FOR THE PURPOSES OF DIVISION 1 OF PART XII OF THE CUSTOMS ACT 1901 (C.I.)

I, LIONEL BARRIE WOODWARD, Comptroller of the Indian Ocean Territories Customs Service, under paragraph (f) of the definition of ‘Customs place’ in subsection 183UA(1) of the Customs Act 1901 (C.I.), approve the following place to be a place for the examination of international mail:

Christmas Island Post Office

Canberra Place

CHRISTMAS ISLAND WA 6798

This instrument of approval comes into effect on and from gazettal.

Dated: 7 January 2004

Lionel Barrie Woodward

Comptroller of the Indian Ocean Territories Customs Service

Source text

Sourced from the Federal Register of Legislation (legislation.gov.au), CC BY 4.0.