Guidance

October 2024 — NCTS Phase 5: declaring National Transit movements

Updated 31 October 2024

Declaring National Transit movements into New Computerised Transit System Phase (NCTS) Phase 5

We are aware that there are currently issues declaring National Transit movements in NCTS Phase 5, for either:

  • Great Britain to Great Britain (GB to GB)
  • Northern Ireland to Northern Ireland (XI to XI)

We understand that users are experiencing a rejection of the IE001 Anticipated Arrival Record (AAR) at the Office of Destination. A fix will be implemented when we switch to final state rules on 22 January 2025.

What this means for you

Until the fix is in place, in order to declare National Transit movements (GB to GB and XI to XI) into NCTS Phase 5, you will need to enter an Office of Transit code in the declaration. This will allow the procedure to be arrived in NCTS at the final point of destination.

For the Office of Transit, you can either:

What happens next

We will continue to issue communications about NCTS Phase 5, until we switch to final state rules in January 2025.

You can find all of our transit updates on GOV.UK.