1. Pursuant to clause 59 of the COVID-19 Public Health Response (Air Border) Order 2021 (“Order”), I, Dr Ashley Bloomfield, Director-General of Health, make this notice.

2. Words and expressions in this notice have the meanings given to them in the Order.

Specification of Approved Systems for Traveller Declarations and Collection of Information

3. For the purposes of clauses 4 and 23(3A) of the Order:

1. The Nau Mai Rā digital platform hosted by the New Zealand Government at https://naumaira.covid19.govt.nz/#/ is an approved system.
2. Submission of the COVID-19 Aircrew Traveller Declaration Form issued by the Ministry of Health is an approved system.

4. A person may make a traveller declaration through Nau Mai Rā instead of the NZTD system until 11.59pm, 31 March 2022.

5. New Zealand-based aircrew members and overseas-based aircrew members may make a traveller declaration through the COVID-19 Aircrew Traveller Declaration Form instead of the NZTD system.

Information Necessary to Support the Public Health Response to COVID-19 and Traveller Health Declaration—Information Shared Through Nau Mai Rā and COVID-19 Aircrew Traveller Declaration Form

General traveller (A) arrivals, General Traveller (Z) arrivals, arrivals from Antarctica and relevant workers making traveller declaration through Nau Mai Rā

6. Pursuant to clause 23 of the Order the following declarations must be made:

1. General traveller (A) and General traveller (Z), Antarctica, and relevant worker (A) must confirm:
1. during the 14-day period before the day on which the person boards the direct flight or first connecting flight on which they arrive in New Zealand:
1. they are not waiting for the results of a test for COVID-19 that they have undergone; and
2. they have not prematurely ended a period of isolation or quarantine to enable them to depart from the relevant country;
2. they are not individually or as a member of a class of persons currently identified or directed by a health authority of a country other than New Zealand to take action due to the high risk of them having or transmitting COVID-19 (for example, directed to isolate or be tested for COVID-19).
2. They have not travelled outside any group 1 country (for General traveller (A), arrivals from Antarctica and relevant workers (A)) in the last 14 days.
3. General travellers (Z), relevant workers (Z) who are required to be vaccinated by the Order must declare they are fully vaccinated and will produce evidence of their vaccination status on arrival in New Zealand.

7. Pursuant to clauses 24 and 25 of the Order I hereby designate the following information to be required from General traveller (A) arrivals, General traveller (Z) arrivals, and relevant workers that make a traveller declaration through Nau Mai Rā:

1. Full name (as specified on the relevant passport).
2. Date of birth.
3. Passport number, expiry date and nationality.
4. Flight number and scheduled date of arrival.
5. Confirmation of whether the person is visiting New Zealand or will stay in New Zealand.
6. Estimated departure date from New Zealand if the person is leaving within three weeks of arrival.
7. Self-isolation address (if applicable).
8. Contact email phone and address details while in New Zealand.
9. The following details of an emergency contact person:
1. Full name.
2. Relationship to arrival.
3. Phone number.
4. Email address (if any).

New Zealand-based Aircrew Members and Overseas-Based Aircrew Members Making Traveller Declaration Through the COVID-19 Aircrew Traveller Declaration Form

8. Pursuant to clauses 23 and 24 of the Order, I hereby designate the following information to be required from New Zealand-based aircrew members and overseas-based aircrew members that make a traveller declaration through the COVID-19 Aircrew Traveller Declaration Form:

1. arrival details;
2. aircrew member details, including full name and contact information in New Zealand;
3. name of airline;
4. overseas port where the person boarded the aircraft on which they arrived in New Zealand;
5. date of arrival in New Zealand;
6. full contact address or residential address;
7. contact phone number in New Zealand;
8. contact email address in New Zealand;
9. confirmation whether the person is ordinarily resident in New Zealand;
10. details of the countries that the aircrew member has entered in the specified 14-day period;
11. confirmation whether the person has complied with the key safety standards or an approved route safety plan (where applicable);
12. confirmation of vaccination against COVID-19 and the type of vaccine received;
13. date of most recent COVID-19 test and the result of that test;
14. confirmation that the person is not subject to a public health direction in any other country and that they intent to comply with the relevant public health measures that apply to them while in New Zealand.

Specification of Traveller Pass

9. Pursuant to clause 12(2A) and 12(2B) of the Order, I hereby designate an alternate traveller pass to be:

1. Subject to paragraph 10 of this notice, the electronic confirmation message from the Nau Mai Rā digital platform (whether presented in electronic or paper format).
2. A completed COVID-19 Aircrew Traveller Declaration Form signed by the declarant.

10. An alternate traveller pass that is issued through Nau Mai Rā before 11.59pm, 31 March 2022 in relation to a flight that arrives in New Zealand after that date continues to be a designated alternate traveller pass.

Commencement and Revocation

11. This notice will come into force at 11.00am on 25 March 2022.

12. The notice of the Director-General dated 25 February 2022 and titled “Information Necessary to Support Public Health Response to COVID-19, Traveller Health Declaration Information, and Self-Isolation Information” (New Zealand Gazette, 25 February 2022, Notice No. 2022-go669) is revoked.

Dated at Wellington this 23rd day of March 2022.

Dr ASHLEY BLOOMFIELD, Director-General of Health.