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Customs Regulations 1926
49ALimitations on use of certain words in connection with businesses, premises etc
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#### 49A Limitations on use of certain words in connection with businesses, premises etc
(1) No person shall, unless the holder of a warehouse licence, assume or use in connection with his trade, business, calling or profession any words which would reasonably lead to the belief that his trade, business, calling or profession is being carried on under any such licence.
Penalty: $250.
(2) Without limiting the preceding subregulation, any person who, not being the holder of an appropriate licence:
(a) places, or suffers or permits to be placed, on the building in which he carries on his trade, business, calling or profession; or
(b) uses in any advertisement or sign published or displayed in connexion with his trade, business, calling or profession; or
(c) uses on any document, as a description of his trade, business, calling or profession; or
(d) uses as the name or part of the name of any firm or company registered in Australia;
the words ‘Bonded Warehouse’, ‘Bonded Store’, ‘Bond’, ‘Duty Free Shop’ or ‘Duty Free’ or any words so nearly resembling them as to be likely to deceive, whether alone or in conjunction with any other words, shall be deemed to be guilty of any offence against that subregulation.
(3) In this regulation:
> appropriate licence means:
(a) in relation to the words ‘Bonded Warehouse’, ‘Bonded Store’ or ‘Bond’, a warehouse licence; and
(b) in relation to the words ‘Duty Free Shop’ and ‘Duty Free’, a warehouse licence that authorizes the sale in the warehouse to which it relates of goods to relevant travellers.
> relevant traveller has the same meaning as in section 96A of the Act.
> warehouse licence has the same meaning as in Part V of the Act.