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Customs and Excise Act 2018

Entry and exit of goods, persons, and craft - Arrival and departure of goods, persons, and craft - Pre-arrival of craft in New Zealand

14: Inward cargo report

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"Telling Customs about goods arriving in New Zealand"

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When a craft is coming to New Zealand or has already arrived, you need to think about the cargo on it. If you own or operate the craft, or if you are helping with the cargo, you have to give Customs a report about the cargo. This report is called an inward cargo report. You have to give this report to Customs within a certain time and you have to do it in the way that the chief executive's rules say. You also have to include any extra documents that the chief executive thinks are necessary, and you can find more information about this by looking at the related section. The chief executive can decide not to make you give an inward cargo report if someone else has already given one, or for another reason they think is okay.

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Part 3Entry and exit of goods, persons, and craft
Arrival and departure of goods, persons, and craft: Pre-arrival of craft in New Zealand

14Inward cargo report

  1. This section applies to cargo on a craft if the craft—

  2. is en route to New Zealand (from a point outside New Zealand) or has arrived in New Zealand; or
    1. is transporting goods that—
      1. are subject to the control of Customs; and
        1. were brought into New Zealand (from a point outside New Zealand) by that craft or any other craft.

        2. The persons referred to in subsections (3) and (4) must, within the prescribed time, provide Customs with an inward cargo report in respect of cargo on the craft in accordance with those subsections (whether or not the person owns, or has any proprietary interest of any kind in, all or any part of the cargo).

        3. Any person who is, or who is the agent of, the owner or operator of the craft must provide an inward cargo report in respect of all the cargo on the craft.

        4. Any cargo aggregator who, in the course of that cargo aggregator’s business, has arranged with the owner or operator of the craft for the transportation of cargo on the craft under a shared space, or other negotiated volume of cargo, arrangement must provide an inward cargo report in respect of the cargo that is the subject of the arrangement.

        5. An inward cargo report must—

        6. be provided in the way prescribed by the chief executive’s rules; and
          1. be accompanied by any supporting documents that the chief executive considers appropriate.

            1. The chief executive may allow a person not to provide an inward cargo report in respect of all or any part of any cargo—

            2. if 1 or more other persons have already provided an inward cargo report in respect of the cargo or the part of it; or
              1. for any other reason that the chief executive considers appropriate.

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