Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

CUSTOMS ACT 1901 - SECT 79

  (1)   Subject to this Part, the Comptroller - General of Customs may grant a person or partnership a licence in writing, to be known as a warehouse licence, to warehouse goods at a place covered by the licence.

  (2)   A warehouse licence may cover:

  (a)   if the licence is an excise - equivalent warehouse licence--one or more places; or

  (b)   otherwise--just one place.

  (3)   A warehouse licence may authorise, at a place covered by the licence, the warehousing of:

  (a)   goods generally; or

  (b)   goods included in one or more classes.

  (4)   A warehouse licence may also authorise, at a place covered by the licence and in relation to all or particular classes of goods warehoused at the place, any of the following activities to be carried on:

  (a)   blending;

  (b)   packaging;

  (c)   processing;

  (d)   manufacturing excisable goods;

  (e)   trading;

  (f)   other activities specified in the licence.