Customs and Excise Act 2018

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Customs-controlled areas

56 Areas required to be licensed as Customs-controlled areas

(1)

An area may not be used for any of the following purposes unless it is licensed by the chief executive as a Customs-controlled area:

(a)

the manufacture of Part A goods:

(b)

the deposit, keeping, or securing of imported goods, or of Part A goods, without payment of duty, pending their export:

(c)

the temporary holding of imported goods for the purpose of examining those goods under section 227:

(d)

the disembarkation, embarkation, or processing of persons arriving in, or departing from, New Zealand:

(e)

the processing of craft arriving in, or departing from, New Zealand:

(f)

the loading or unloading of goods onto or from craft arriving in, or departing from, New Zealand:

(g)

any other prescribed purpose.

(2)

Subsection (1) is subject to sections 62 and 67.

Compare: 1996 No 27 ss 10, 68