Customs Amendment (Unentered and Abandoned Goods) Regulations 2022

I, General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 10 April 2022

David Hurley

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Jason Wood

Assistant Minister for Customs, Community Safety and Multicultural Affairs
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Home Affairs

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Customs Regulation 2015

1  Name

  This instrument is the Customs Amendment (Unentered and Abandoned Goods) Regulations 2022.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under the Customs Act 1901.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Customs Regulation 2015

1  Subsection 32(2)

Omit “6 months”, substitute “2 months”.

2  Section 124

Omit “90 days”, substitute “2 months”.

3  In the appropriate position in Part 18

Insert:

162  Amendments made by the Customs Amendment (Unentered and Abandoned Goods) Regulations 2022

 (1) The amendment made by the Customs Amendment (Unentered and Abandoned Goods) Regulations 2022 to subsection 32(2) of this instrument applies in relation to sale or disposal of goods on or after 1 July 2022:

 (a) whether the goods were imported before, on or after 1 July 2022; and

 (b) whether the period that applies to the goods under paragraph 72(1)(b) of the Act ends before, on or after 1 July 2022; and

 (c) whether the goods were removed to a warehouse or other place under subsection 72(1) of the Act before, on or after 1 July 2022.

 (2) The amendment made by the Customs Amendment (Unentered and Abandoned Goods) Regulations 2022 to section 124 of this instrument applies in relation to disposal of goods on or after 1 July 2022, whether the goods were found at a Customs place before, on or after 1 July 2022.