Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia

 

LIN 23/080

 

Customs Amendment (International Sporting Event—FIFA) ByLaw 2024

I, Amber Sequeira, delegate of the ComptrollerGeneral of Customs, make the following instrument.

Dated 11 October 2024

[Signed]

Amber Sequeira

Delegate of the ComptrollerGeneral of Customs

 

Contents

1  Name

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Customs ByLaws 2023

75  Goods for use in connection with the FIFA Women’s World Cup Australia New Zealand 2023 imported in 2022 (item 59)

 

 

1  Name

  This instrument is the Customs Amendment (International Sporting Event—FIFA) ByLaw 2024.

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.

 

Commencement information

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Provisions

Commencement

Date/Details

1.  The whole of the instrument

The day after this instrument is registered.

 

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 section 271 of 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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 1Amendments

Customs ByLaws 2023

1  After section 74

Insert:

75  Goods for use in connection with the FIFA Women’s World Cup Australia New Zealand 2023 imported in 2022 (item 59)

Bylaw

 (1) This section may be cited as Customs Bylaw No. 2442119.

Prescribed goods

 (2) For the purposes of item 59, goods (other than exciseequivalent goods) for use in Australia in connection with the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) Women’s World Cup Australia New Zealand 2023 are goods to which that item applies.

Note: Goods classified to a tariff subheading listed in clause 1 of Schedule 1 to the Customs Regulation 2015 are exciseequivalent goods.

Conditions

 (3) Item 59 applies to those goods covered by subsection 2 subject to all of the following conditions:

 (a) the goods are imported by any one of the following:

 (i) FIFA, including continental football confederations;

 (ii) FIFA subsidiary;

 (iii) Football Australia Limited (ACN 106 478 068);

 (iv) FWWC2023 Pty Ltd (ACN 650 853 302);

 (v) a person or body in connection with the entity referred to in subparagraph (a)(i), (a)(ii), (a)(iii) or (a)(iv);

 (b) for a person or body covered in subparagraph (a)(v)—the person or body provides evidence in writing of the connection with the entity to a Collector if requested to do so;

 (c) the goods are imported during a period starting on 1 January 2022 and ending at the end of the day on 31 December 2022;

 (d) the goods are:

 (i) for consumption in Australia; or

 (ii) exported from Australia after their use; or

 (iii) donated after their use to an entity whose purpose is related to the practice of sports and/or social development; or

 (iv) donated after their use to a registered charity within the meaning of the Customs Tariff Act 1995.

Interpretative provisions

 (4) In this section:

FIFA subsidiary means any entity in which FIFA, directly and/or indirectly, owns at least 50.1% of its capital or voting interest as well as subsidiaries of any such entity in which FIFA and/or such entity owns at least 50.1% of the capital or voting interest, regardless of whether such entity is resident inside or outside of Australia.