Section 96 — Immigration Act 2009: Responsibilities of carrier, and person in charge, of commercial craft before it departs from another country to travel to New Zealand

96 Responsibilities of carrier, and person in charge, of commercial craft before it departs from another country to travel to New Zealand (1) This section applies to a carrier, and a person in charge, of a commercial craft, if— (a) the carrier or the person is notified by the chief executive that— (i) the carrier or the person is a person of a kind who must comply with the responsibilities specified in subsection (2) before a craft in relation to which the carrier or the person is the carrier or the person in charge departs from another country to travel to New Zealand; or (ii) the craft in relation to which the carrier or the person is the carrier or the person in charge is a craft of a kind in relation to which the carrier or the person must comply with the responsibilities specified in subsection (2) before the craft departs from another country to travel to New Zealand; and (b) either— (i) the craft is scheduled to travel to New Zealand in the course of a scheduled international service; or (ii) it is proposed that the craft travel to New Zealand from another country. (2) The carrier or the person must, before the craft departs from another country to travel to New Zealand,— (a) obtain from every person who intends to board the craft for the purpose of travelling to New Zealand the information prescribed for the purposes of this subsection: (b) provide to the chief executive, by means of an approved system, the information prescribed for the purposes of this subsection. (3) The chief executive may, in writing, exempt a carrier or a person to whom this section applies from complying with some or all of the carrier's or the person's responsibilities under this section in all or any specified circumstances. (4) In this section, scheduled international service means a series of flights or voyages that are— (a) performed by a craft for the transport of passengers, cargo, or mail between New Zealand and 1 or more points in any other country or territory, if the flights or voyages are so regular or frequent as to constitute a systematic service, whether or not in accordance with a published timetable; and (b) operated in a manner where each flight or voyage is open to use by members of the public. Compare: 1987 No 74 s 125AA(1), (2), (3)