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Customs and Excise Act 2018

Administrative provisions - Disclosure of information - Publication of agreements

321: Publication of agreements entered into under section 315, 316, 317, or 318

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"Making some agreements public on the Customs website"

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When you enter into an agreement under sections like section 315, section 316, section 317, or section 318, this section applies to you. You need to publish the agreement and any changes to it on a website that Customs maintains.

The agreement and its changes must be available for everyone to see on the Internet site. However, if the Official Information Act 1982 says that some information can be kept secret, then that information does not have to be published.

If some information is kept secret, you still have to publish a summary of the agreement or its changes on the Customs website.

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Part 5Administrative provisions
Disclosure of information: Publication of agreements

321Publication of agreements entered into under section 315, 316, 317, or 318

  1. This section applies to an agreement entered into under one of the following sections:

  2. section 315; or
    1. section 316; or
      1. section 317; or
        1. section 318.

          1. The agreement, and all variations of the agreement, must be published on an Internet site maintained by or on behalf of Customs.

          2. However, subsection (2) does not apply to—

          3. an agreement or a variation of an agreement that may be withheld on a request under the Official Information Act 1982:
            1. a provision of an agreement or a variation of an agreement that may be withheld on a request under the Official Information Act 1982.

              1. If, in reliance on subsection (3)(a), the agreement or a variation of the agreement is not published, a summary of the agreement or variation of the agreement must be published on an Internet site maintained by or on behalf of Customs.