71EMovement permissions

71E  Movement permissions

Movement permissions—movement to specified places

 (1) Where particular goods, or goods of a particular kind, are, or after their importation will be, subject to customs control, application may be made to the Department, by document or electronically, in accordance with this section, for permission to move those goods, or goods of that kind, or to move them after their importation, to a place specified in the application.

 (2) A documentary movement application must:

 (a) be made by the owner of the goods concerned; and

 (b) be communicated to the Department by giving it to an officer doing duty in relation to import entries or to the movement of goods subject to customs control.

 (2A) If:

 (a) the goods are goods to which section 68 applies; and

 (b) the goods have not been entered for home consumption or warehousing; and

 (c) subsection (2C) does not apply to the goods;

a movement application may be made only by:

 (d) for goods carried on board a ship or aircraft—the operator of the ship or aircraft, a cargo reporter in relation to the goods, or a stevedore or depot operator who has, or intends to take, possession of the goods; or

 (e) for goods that are a ship or aircraft and that are not carried on board a ship or aircraft—the owner of the goods.

 (2B) A movement application under subsection (2A) must be made electronically.

 (2C) This subsection applies to goods if:

 (a) the goods are:

 (i) accompanied by, and described in, temporary admission papers issued in accordance with an agreement between Australia and one or more other countries that provides for the temporary importation of goods without payment of duty; or

 (ii) subject to an application under section 162AA for permission to take delivery of goods; and

 (b) neither of the following applies:

 (i) the Comptroller‑General of Customs has refused to accept a security or undertaking under section 162A in relation to the goods;

 (ii) a Collector has refused to grant permission under section 162A to take delivery of the goods.

 (3) If a movement application is duly communicated to the Department, subsections (3AA) and (3AB) apply.

 (3AA) An officer may direct the applicant to ensure that the goods are held in the place where they are currently located until the decision is made on the application.

 (3AB) If a direction is not given under subsection (3AA), or a reasonable period has elapsed since the giving of such a direction to enable the making of an informed decision on the application, an officer must: