He says he should never had been charged in the first place because US law says that the exporter is responsible for licences, not an importer like him.
The Commerce and Employment department, responsible for issuing licences, said they would not comment further.
Each Australian state is also responsible for CT machine licencing with limited uniformity of reporting of machine numbers, making a comparison of CT machine prevalence between states or nationally impracticable.
She said the prime minister had been personally responsible for forcing the licence for the Tanzania deal through the cabinet.
Two months later, it is surely some measure of the national mood that, of all the clerks of all the counties of all 50 US states – the men and women responsible for issuing marriage licences – just one remains in the headlines for her refusal to heed the court's decision.
It says if a member of the clergy is not satisfied that the marriage is genuine, he or she must make that clear to the person responsible for granting the licence.
Channel TV, the ITV licence holder responsible for compliance of The Alan Titchmarsh Show on behalf of the ITV network, said no payment had been received for reference to any of the products.
Labour MP Margaret Hodge, the chair of the PAC, has said she will seek to question BBC executives past and present together about who was responsible for the "outrageous waste of licence fee payers' money".
In 2001, she became the corporation's head of revenue management, responsible for the collection of the licence fee when she reduced evasion to an all-time low of 5%.
"The purpose of this guidance and direction from the bishops to the clergy and to those responsible for the grant of common licences is, therefore, to prevent the contracting of sham marriages in the Church of England," he said.
