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Customs and Excise Act 2018

Final and miscellaneous provisions - Regulations, orders, rules, etc - Chief executive’s rules, etc

421: Chief executive’s rules

You could also call this:

"The boss of Customs can make special rules to help with decisions and procedures."

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The chief executive can make rules about things that this Act says must be decided by these rules. You can find more information about what the chief executive can decide in section 323(3)(b), 405(e), or 435(5)(b). The chief executive's rules can say what forms you must use, what information you must give, and what declarations you must make.

The chief executive's rules can be different for different situations. These rules are a type of law called secondary legislation, which you can learn more about in Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019. The rules will start on a date that is at least 28 days after they are published.

The chief executive is the only person who can make these rules, and they cannot ask someone else to do it for them.

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Part 6Final and miscellaneous provisions
Regulations, orders, rules, etc: Chief executive’s rules, etc

421Chief executive’s rules

  1. The chief executive may make rules prescribing any matter that this Act (including regulations made for the purposes of section 323(3)(b), 405(e), or 435(5)(b)) provides is to be prescribed by the chief executive’s rules.

  2. A power to prescribe the way in which anything is to be done includes (without limitation) the power to prescribe any of the following:

  3. any form that must be used:
    1. any information that must be provided:
      1. any declaration that must be provided.

        1. Rules made under subsection (1) may make different provision for different cases on any differential basis.

        2. Rules under this section—

        3. are secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements); and
          1. come into force on a date specified in them, being not less than 28 days after the rules are published under that Act.

            1. Repealed

            2. Repealed

            3. The chief executive’s power to make rules under subsection (1) cannot be delegated to another person.

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            Notes
            • Section 421(4): replaced, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).
            • Section 421(5): repealed, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).
            • Section 421(6): repealed, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).