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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 - Further powers in relation to arrival and departure information

49: Chief executive may require commercial transportation operator to provide PNR information

You could also call this:

"Customs can ask transport companies for information about travellers to and from New Zealand"

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The chief executive can ask a commercial transportation operator to give Customs some information. You need to know that this information is about people who are travelling to or from New Zealand. The operator must give Customs all the information they have about these people, including what is in their passenger name record.

The chief executive will tell the operator what information to give and when to give it. The operator must give the information between 72 hours before the person's flight and 24 hours after the flight. The chief executive will decide how the operator should give the information.

When the chief executive is deciding what information to ask for and how to get it, they must think about the standards set by the International Civil Aviation Organization under the Convention on International Civil Aviation. You can find more information about this by looking at the Convention on International Civil Aviation and the International Civil Aviation Organization.

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Part 3Entry and exit of goods, persons, and craft
Arrival and departure of goods, persons, and craft: Further powers in relation to arrival and departure information

49Chief executive may require commercial transportation operator to provide PNR information

  1. The chief executive may, by notice in writing, require a commercial transportation operator to comply with this section on and after the specified date.

  2. The commercial transportation operator must provide Customs with all specified information—

  3. that is included in the passenger name record of any person referred to in subsection (3); and
    1. that the operator holds (whether in New Zealand or elsewhere) or has access to.

      1. The persons are persons who—

      2. have arrived in, or departed from, New Zealand on or after the specified date; or
        1. are arriving in, or departing from, New Zealand on or after the specified date; or
          1. are intending to arrive in, or depart from, New Zealand on or after the specified date.

            1. The specified information in relation to any person must be provided—

            2. not earlier than 72 hours before the scheduled departure of the craft on which the person is travelling to or from New Zealand; and
              1. not later than 24 hours after the scheduled departure of that craft; and
                1. in the specified way.

                  1. In this section, specified means specified in the chief executive’s notice under subsection (1).

                  2. The chief executive must have regard to the standards and recommended practices for the conduct of the international civil aviation system established by the International Civil Aviation Organization under the Convention on International Civil Aviation when specifying—

                  3. the information required to be provided by the commercial transportation operator; and
                    1. the way in which that information is to be provided.

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