Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) In this section:
"international flight" means a flight, whether direct or indirect, by an aircraft between a place in Australia from which the aircraft takes off and a place outside Australia at which the aircraft lands or is intended to land.
"international voyage" means a voyage, whether direct or indirect, by a ship between a place in Australia and a place outside Australia.
"outwards duty free shop" means a warehouse in respect of which the relevant warehouse licence authorises the sale in the warehouse of goods to relevant travellers.
"proprietor" , in relation to an outwards duty free shop, means the holder of the warehouse licence that relates to the outwards duty free shop.
"relevant traveller" means a person:
(a) who intends to make an international flight, whether as a passenger on, or as a pilot or member of the crew of, an aircraft; or
(b) who intends to make an international voyage, whether as a passenger on, or as the master or a member of the crew of, a ship.
"warehouse licence" has the same meaning as it has in the Customs Act 1901 .
(2) Subject to the regulations (if any), a Collector may give permission, in accordance with subsection (3), for excisable goods that are specified in the permission, are subject to the CEO's control and are sold to a relevant traveller in an outwards duty free shop that is specified in the permission to be:
(a) delivered to the relevant traveller personally for exportation by him or her when making the international flight or voyage in relation to which he or she is a relevant traveller; and
(b) exported by the relevant traveller when making that flight or voyage without the goods having been entered for exportation;
and, subject to subsection (13), the permission is authority for such goods to be so delivered and so exported.
(3) Permission under subsection (2) is given in accordance with this subsection if it is in writing and is delivered to the proprietor of the outwards duty free shop to which the permission relates.
(4) Permission under subsection (2) may relate to particular goods, all goods, goods included in a specified class or classes of goods or goods other than goods included in a specified class or classes of goods.
(5) Without limiting the matters that may be prescribed in regulations referred to in subsection (2), those regulations:
(a) may prescribe circumstances in which permission under that subsection may be given;
(b) may prescribe matters to be taken into account by a Collector when deciding whether to give permission under that subsection; and
(c) may prescribe conditions to which a permission under that subsection is to be subject.
(6) A Collector may, when giving permission under subsection (2) or at any time while a permission under that subsection is in force, impose conditions to which the permission is to be subject, being conditions that, in the opinion of the Collector, are necessary for the protection of the revenue or for the purpose of ensuring compliance with the Excise Acts and may, at any time, revoke, suspend or vary, or cancel a suspension of, a condition so imposed.
(7) Without limiting the generality of paragraph (5)(c) or subsection (6), a condition referred to in that paragraph or that subsection to which a permission is to be subject may be:
(a) a condition to be complied with by the proprietor of the outwards duty free shop to which the permission relates or by relevant travellers to whom goods to which the permission relates are sold;
(b) a condition that the permission only applies to sales to relevant travellers who comply with a prescribed requirement or requirements, which may be, or include, a requirement that relevant travellers produce to the proprietor of the outwards duty free shop to which the permission relates or to an employee or agent of that proprietor a ticket or other document, being a document approved by a Collector for the purposes of this paragraph, showing that the relevant traveller is entitled to make the international flight or voyage in relation to which he or she is a relevant traveller; or
(c) a condition that the proprietor of the outwards duty free shop to which the permission relates will keep records specified in the regulations and will notify a Collector of all sales made by him or her to which the permission applies.
(8) A condition imposed in respect of a permission under subsection (6) or a revocation, suspension or variation, or a cancellation of a suspension, of such a condition takes effect when notice, in writing, of the condition or of the revocation, suspension or variation, or of the cancellation of the suspension, is served on the proprietor of the outwards duty free shop to which it relates, or at such later time (if any) as is specified in the notice, but does not have effect in relation to any goods delivered to a relevant traveller before the notice was served.
(9) A condition imposed in respect of a permission under paragraph (5)(c) or subsection (6) or a revocation, suspension or variation, or a cancellation of a suspension, of a condition under subsection (6) may relate to all goods to which the permission relates or to particular goods to which the permission relates and may apply either generally or in particular circumstances.
(10) A permission under subsection (2) is subject to:
(a) the condition that the proprietor of the outwards duty free shop to which the permission relates will ensure that relevant travellers to whom goods are delivered in accordance with the permission are aware of any conditions of the permission with which they are required to comply; and
(b) the condition that that proprietor will provide a Collector with proof, in a prescribed way and within a prescribed time, of the export of goods delivered to a relevant traveller in accordance with the permission.
(11) If a person who is required to comply with a condition imposed in respect of a permission under subsection (2) fails to comply with the condition, he or she commits an offence against this Act punishable upon conviction by a penalty not exceeding 50 penalty units.
Note: See section 4AA of the Crimes Act 1914 for the current value of a penalty unit.
(11A) An offence under subsection (11) is an offence of strict liability.
Note: For strict liability , see section 6.1 of the Criminal Code .
(12) Where the proprietor of an outwards duty free shop to which a permission under subsection (2) relates does not produce the proof required by paragraph (10)(b) that goods delivered by him or her to a relevant traveller in accordance with the permission have been exported by that traveller, the goods shall be deemed to have been entered, and delivered, for home consumption by the proprietor, as owner of the goods, on the day on which the goods were delivered to that traveller.
(13) A Collector may, in accordance with the regulations, revoke a permission given under subsection (2) in relation to the sale of goods occurring after the revocation.
(14) Where a Collector makes a decision under subsection (2) refusing to give permission to the proprietor of an outwards duty free shop or under subsection (13) revoking a permission given under subsection (2), the Collector shall cause to be served, either personally or by post, on the proprietor of the shop, a notice in writing setting out the Collector's findings on material questions of fact, referring to the evidence or other material on which those findings were based and giving the reasons for the decision.