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. |