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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

50: Supplementary provision relating to requirement to provide craft or PNR information

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"Rules for giving information to Customs about your flight or trip"

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When you are providing information to Customs, the chief executive has the power to say how you must provide it. This includes saying what form the information must be in and if you need to make a declaration with it. The chief executive can also exempt some commercial transportation operators from following some or all of the rules in sections 48 and 49 in certain circumstances. You will get this exemption in writing and it will say when it applies.

If you get an exemption, you still have to provide the information, but you can do it in a different way that the chief executive agrees to. You do not have to provide information about an employee unless it is the kind of information you would normally have about passengers. The chief executive's powers are explained in more detail in sections 48 and 49, and you can also look at s 38F(2), (3) for more information.

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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

50Supplementary provision relating to requirement to provide craft or PNR information

  1. The chief executive’s powers under sections 48 and 49 to specify the way in which any information is to be provided to Customs include (without limitation) the power to specify any of the following:

  2. the form in which the information is to be provided:
    1. any declaration that must be provided with the information.

      1. The chief executive may, by notice in writing, in any circumstances specified in the notice, exempt a commercial transportation operator from complying with some or all of the operator’s obligations under section 48 or 49.

      2. However, an exemption under subsection (2) from providing information in the way specified in the chief executive’s notice under section 48(1) or 49(1) must be conditional on the provision of that information in some other way that is acceptable to the chief executive.

      3. To avoid doubt, a commercial transportation operator is not required to provide information under section 48 or 49 that the operator holds, or has access to, about an employee unless the information is information of a kind that is also generally held by the operator, or to which the operator generally has access, in relation to passengers.

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