Powers and duties of the Director of Immigration and Nationality Services

(1) The Director shall– (a) co-ordinate with IMPACS on all matters relating to the APIS; (b) if requested, allow a crew member or passenger from a vessel access to his personal identifiable information maintained in the APIS to ensure its correctness; 41 (c) determine, after consultation with IMPACS, the admissibility or otherwise of any passenger or crew member into Belize; (d) in the case of a vessel that is an aircraft, withhold clearance for the departure of the aircraft whose master has not provided API required pursuant to section 3, pending submission of API; and (e) assess the sufficiency, and error rates in review of API transmissions for each journey. (2) Subject to subregulation (1)(b), a crew member or passenger from a vessel is not entitled to have access to any information provided by IMPACS or JRCC through the screening of API by IMPACS and JRCC against a Watch List for any API hit.