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27 AUGUST CUSTOMS EDITION 2399
NEW ZEALAND CUSTOMS SERVICE
CUSTOMS AND EXCISE ACT 1996
CUSTOMS (INWARD REPORT) RULES 1996
PURSUANT to Section 288(1)(a) of the Customs and Excise Act 1996 the Chief Executive hereby makes the rules and prescribes the forms for the purposes of the making of Inward Reports for craft.
RULES
1 Title, Commencement and Application
(a) These rules may be cited as the Customs (Inward Report) Rules 1996.
(b) These rules shall come into force on the 1st day of October 1996.
(c) These rules shall apply for the purposes of the making of inward reports in respect of craft that -
(i) arrive in New Zealand from a point outside New Zealand; or
(ii) carry persons, or goods subject to the control of the Customs, brought in that or any other craft from a point outside New Zealand.
2 Interpretation
In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires -
(a) The term “the Act” means the Customs and Excise Act 1996;
(b) Any terms used in these rules which are defined in Section 2 of the Act shall have the meanings given to them by that section;
(c) “Prescribed form” or “form” means a form prescribed by the Chief Executive and set out in the Schedule to these rules; and a reference to a numbered form is a reference to the form so prescribed and numbered.
3 Form and Content of Inward Reports -
Every inward report required under Section 26(2) of the Act shall be -
(a) In Form C1, for ships (other than yachts), and shall contain the particulars specified in that form.
(b) In Form C1A, for aircraft, and shall contain the particulars specified in that form.
(c) In Form C1B, for yachts, and shall contain the particulars specified in that form.
4 The person making an inward report in any of the forms specified in paragraphs (a) to (c) of rule 3 of these rules shall provide the answers pertaining to all matters as are required in or by such form, and where the form requires a declaration to be made, make such declaration.
5 Where the prescribed forms contain any explanatory or other notes such notes do not form part of the prescription but are for the guidance of the person making the inward report.
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