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95: Issue of invitation to apply for visa matter of discretion
or “Immigration officials decide who gets invited to apply for a visa”
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“Providing passenger information before departure for commercial craft to and from New Zealand”

If you are in charge of a commercial craft or you are a carrier of one, you need to know about some important rules. These rules apply if your craft is going to or from New Zealand, and if the chief executive has told you that you must follow them.

Here’s what you need to do:

You must get some information from every person who wants to board your craft to travel to or from New Zealand. This information is called ‘advance passenger processing information’. The chief executive will tell you exactly what information you need to collect.

After you get this information, you must send it to the chief executive before your craft leaves. You’ll use a special system that the chief executive has approved to send this information.

Sometimes, the chief executive might say you don’t have to do all of this. If that happens, they will write to you and explain what you don’t need to do.

Remember, these rules are very important, and you must follow them unless the chief executive says you don’t have to.

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Part 4 Arrivals and departures
Advance passenger processing

96Carrier, and person in charge, of commercial craft to provide advance passenger processing information before departure

  1. This section applies to a carrier, and a person in charge, of a commercial craft if—

  2. one of the following applies:
    1. the craft is scheduled to travel to New Zealand in the course of a scheduled international service:
      1. it is proposed that the craft travel to New Zealand from another country:
        1. the craft is scheduled to travel from New Zealand in the course of a scheduled international service:
          1. it is proposed that the craft travel from New Zealand to another country; and
          2. the chief executive has notified the carrier, or a person in charge, of the craft that the carrier or person in charge of the craft must comply with this section.

            1. A carrier, or a person in charge, of a commercial craft must—

            2. obtain from every person who intends to board the craft for the purpose of travelling to, or from, New Zealand the advance passenger processing information prescribed for the purposes of this subsection; and
              1. provide that information to the chief executive, by means of an approved system, before the departure of the craft to travel to, or from, New Zealand.

                1. The chief executive may, by notice in writing, in any specified circumstances, exempt a carrier, or person in charge, of a commercial craft from complying with some or all of the requirements under subsection (2).

                Notes
                • Section 96: replaced, on , by section 270 of the Intelligence and Security Act 2017 (2017 No 10).