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CUSTOMS ACT 1901 - SECT 126DB

Authentication of certain electronic communications

    An electronic communication that is made to the Department and is required or permitted by this Act is taken to be made by a particular person, even though the person did not authorise the communication, if:

  (a)   the communication meets the information technology requirements that the Comptroller - General of Customs has determined under section   126DA have to be met to satisfy a requirement that the person's signature be given to the Department in connection with information in the communication; and

  (b)   the person did not notify the Department of a breach of security relating to those information technology requirements before the communication;

unless the person provides evidence to the contrary.


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