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## Form 68—Wharfs: Security to the Customs
(regulations 3, 4)
THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
WHARFS: SECURITY TO THE CUSTOMS
By this security the subscribers are, pursuant to the Customs Act 1901‑1925, bound to the Customs of the Commonwealth of Australia in the sum of subject only to this condition that if—
1. All goods and packages subject to the control of the Customs which at any time during the continuance of this Security are upon or at the wharf known as Wharf
at the Port of in the State of are—
(a) safely and securely kept upon or at the said wharf until such goods and packages are moved therefrom by authority within the meaning of the said Act and in accordance with the said Act or cease to be subject to the control of the Customs; and
(b) whilst upon or at the said wharf dealt with in all respects in accordance with the said Act and any amendment thereof to the satisfaction of the Regional Director for the said State; and
2. Whenever and as often as—
(a) any goods which according to any invoice or other commercial document received by an owner within the meaning of the said Act of any such package as aforesaid were or should have been contained in such package; and
(b) such goods are not contained in the package when or at any time before the package is moved from the said wharf in manner aforesaid;
the subscribers prove to the satisfaction of the said Collector that such goods were not in fact contained in the package at the time when the package came upon or to the said wharf;
then this Security shall be thereby discharged.\*
And it is agreed that for the purpose of this Security “wharf” includes any shed, store, lands or premises attached or adjacent to the wharf and used for the storage of goods in connexion with the wharf.
Dated at the day of , 19
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\*NOTE—If liability is not intended to be joint and several and for the full amount, here state what is intended, as, for example, thus:—“The liability of the subscribers is joint only”, or “the liability of (mentioning subscriber) is limited to (here state amount of limit of liability or mode of ascertaining limit)”.