The Immigration and Police (Passenger, Crew and Service Information) Order 2008

PART 4 Police acquisition of passenger and service information

Passenger and service information: police

6.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the passenger and service information set out in Schedule 3 is specified for the purposes of section 32(5)(a) of the 2006 Act (passenger and crew information: police powers) in respect of ships and aircraft and through trains and shuttle trains arriving or expected to arrive in, or leaving or expected to leave, the United Kingdom.

(2) The information set out in Schedule 3 is only specified for the purposes of section 32(5)(a) of the 2006 Act to the extent to which it is known by the owner or agent of a ship or aircraft or by the person operating an international service or his agent in circumstances where the information is to be provided before a point in time at which passengers have boarded the ship or aircraft or through train or shuttle train in preparation for departure and it is no longer possible for further passengers or crew to do so.

(3) Where information set out in Schedule 3 has been requested in circumstances set out in paragraph (2), nothing in this article prevents that same information being requested from the owner or agent of a ship or aircraft or from the person operating an international service or his agent a second time where those same circumstances do not apply.

(4) The passenger and service information set out in Schedule 4 is specified for the purposes of section 32(5)(a) of the 2006 Act to the extent to which it is known by the owner or agent of a ship or aircraft or by the person operating an international service or his agent.

Form and manner in which passenger and service information to be provided: police

7.  Passenger and service information shall be provided under section 32 of the 2006 Act in an electronic form that is compatible with the technology used by the recipient of the data unless an alternative form and manner of information transmission is authorised by the recipient of the information.

Revocations

8.  The following instruments are revoked—

(a) The Immigration (Particulars of Passengers and Crew) Order 1972(1);

(b) The Immigration (Particulars of Passengers and Crew) (Amendment) Order 1975(2); and

(c) The Immigration (Passenger Information) Order 2000(3).

(1)

S.I. 1972/1667 which has been amended by S.I. 1975/980.

(2)

S.I. 1975/980.

(3)

S.I. 2000/912.