WELLINGTON
The Customhouse, 1 Hinemoa Street, Wellington
PO Box 2218, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
www.customs.govt.nz
19 December 2024
Ref: OIA 24-808
Mr Regan Gibbons
By email
: [FYI request #29542 email]
Dear Mr Gibbons
Response to your request under the Official Information Act 1982
Thank you for your request to the New Zealand Customs Service (Customs) received on 13
December 2024, in which you requested the following information under the Official Information Act
1982 (the Act):
“Under the Official Information Act 1982, I request the number of New Zealand citizens or
permanent residents who departed the country with their final ticketed destination listed as
Israel between 1 January 2020 and 13 December 2024, broken down by month.”
In response to your request, I can advise that Customs’ records of people’s travel movements only
include the most immediate port of arrival and do not include any further travel an individual may
undertake. As there are no direct flights between New Zealand and Israel, Customs does not hold
the information you have requested. Therefore, I am refusing your request in full under section
18(g)(i) of the Act, as the information requested is not held Customs and I have no grounds for
believing that the information is held by another department or interdepartmental venture or Minister
of the Crown or organisation, or by a local authority.
You have the right, by way of complaint to the Office of the Ombudsman under section 28(3) of the
Act, to seek an investigation and review of this decision. Information about how to make a complaint
is available online a
t: www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or you can phone 0800 802 602.
If you have any queries in regard to this response, please contact the Correspondence, Reviews and
Ministerial Servicing Team
: [email address].
Please note that Customs proactively releases responses to Official Information Act requests on our
website. As such, we may publish this response on our website after we have sent it to you. Your
name and contact details will be removed.
Yours sincerely
Debbie Kay
Manager Correspondence, Reviews and Ministerial Servicing
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E: [email address]
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