You have the right to inspect Customs entries for goods imported into New Zealand. You can look at these documents if the Customs has them. This is part of the Medicines Act 1981.

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Part 8Miscellaneous provisions

101Examination of Customs entries

For the purposes of this Act, every officer shall have the right at all times, subject to the convenience of the Customs, to inspect any Customs entry relating to any goods imported or proposed to be imported into New Zealand, or to inspect any certificate or invoice relating to those goods, if and so long as any such document is in the possession or control of the Customs.

Compare

1969 No 7 s 43
1979 No 27 s 79

Notes

Section 101: amended, on 1 October 1996, by section 289(1) of the Customs and Excise Act 1996 (1996 No 27).