Section 101 — Immigration Act 2009: Obligations in relation to craft en route to or arriving in New Zealand

101 Obligations in relation to craft en route to or arriving in New Zealand (1) Except as provided in regulations made under this Act, the carrier, and the person in charge, of any craft that is en route to New Zealand or that berths, lands, or arrives in New Zealand from another country have the following responsibilities: (a) to ensure that all persons boarding the craft have the prescribed documentation for immigration purposes: (b) on arrival of the craft at a place that is or contains an immigration control area,— (i) to produce for inspection such prescribed documents as an immigration officer may specify; and (ii) if applicable, to prevent, with such reasonable force as may be necessary, the disembarkation of any person from the craft otherwise than into an immigration control area: (c) subject to section 25 of the Customs and Excise Act 1996, where the craft arrives, or is to arrive, in New Zealand elsewhere than at a place that is or contains an immigration control area because of weather conditions or other unforeseen circumstances, to make appropriate arrangements for all persons on board the craft to report in the manner and within the time prescribed for the purposes of section 103(1)(b) : (d) if a stowaway has been found on the craft, to report that fact to an immigration officer as soon as practicable. (2) In addition to any obligations under section 102 , the carrier, and the person in charge, of a craft that is en route to New Zealand or that berths, lands, or arrives in New Zealand from another country have the following responsibilities: (a) in the case of a craft that is not a commercial passenger aircraft on a scheduled international service, to supply on demand by an immigration officer a list giving such details as the officer may specify concerning every person (whether a member of the crew or a passenger) who has been on board the craft since its last port of call: (b) in the case of a commercial passenger aircraft on a scheduled international service, to supply such available information as may be required by an immigration officer relating to any person who may have been on board the craft since its last place of call. (3) Once a craft that is en route to New Zealand has entered the territorial limits of New Zealand, the person in charge of the craft is, for the purpose of ensuring or facilitating compliance with this Act, responsible for preventing, with such reasonable force as may be necessary, the disembarkation of any person from the craft other than for the purpose of carrying out the person’s responsibilities under section 103 . (4) Subsections (1) to (3) are subject to any applicable special direction or to regulations made under section 400 . (5) In this section, scheduled international service has the meaning given to it in section 96(4) . Compare: 1987 No 74 s 125(1), (2)