Customs Act 1901 CEO Instrument of Approval No. 43 of 2002 (Cth)

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

CEO INSTRUMENT OF APPROVAL No. 43 of 2002

CUSTOMS ACT 1901

I, LIONEL BARRIE WOODWARD, Chief Executive Officer of Customs, under section 4A and subsection 64ACA(8) of the Customs Act 1901 (the Act), hereby approve the attached “Electronic Reporting of Passengers – APP System” statement as the approved statement for the purposes of transmitting an electronic report on the passengers who will be on board an aircraft at the time of its arrival at an airport.

This statement only applies to the following kind of operators of – operators of aircraft that are on a flight provided as part of an airline service that is:

(i)      provided for a fee payable by those using it;

(ii)      provided in accordance with fixed schedules to or from fixed terminals over specific routes; and

(iii)     available to the general public on a regular basis.

This statement is approved for use on and from 5 January 2003.

Dated: 4 December 2002

LIONEL BARRIE WOODWARD

Chief Executive Officer of Customs

ELECTRONIC REPORTING OF PASSENGERS – APP SYSTEM

APPROVED STATEMENT: SECTION 64ACA OF THE CUSTOMS ACT 1901

INFORMATION TO BE PROVIDED

Item	Short Field Title	Description
1.	Travel Document Number	The assigned number of an official identification document issued by a state or organisation to a person for the purpose of international travel.
2.	Travel Document ICAO Country Code	A three letter code assigned by the International Civil Aviation Organisation to represent the states and organisations that issue travel documents, for use in these travel documents.
3.	Family Name	Family name of passenger
4.	Trans-border Flight	The flight number used by the operator of the air service on which a passenger will cross the Australian border.
5.	Check-in Port	The port at which a passenger commences an international movement and at which advance passenger information for the passenger is collected.
6.	Expected Port	The port at which a passenger will be cleared by Customs and Immigration for movement into Australia.  This must be an Australian port.
7.	Check-in Date	Check-in date and time used to locate passengers.  The date will be supplied as Greenwich Mean Time.
8.	Trans-border Port	The first port in Australia at which a passenger arrives when travelling to Australia.