MT 300 Field Specifications

35. Field 72: Sender to Receiver Information

FORMAT

6*35x (Narrative)

The following line format must be used:

Line 1 /8c/[additional information]  
Lines 2-6 [//continuation of additional information]
-or-
[/8c/[additional information]]
 

PRESENCE

Optional in a conditional sequence (C2)

DEFINITION

This field specifies additional information for the Receiver and applies to the whole message.

USAGE RULES

The structured format may be used for bilaterally agreed codes.

Each code used must be put between slashes and appear at the beginning of a line.

All alphabetic characters in a code must be in upper case.

Additional explanatory information, which may be continued on the next lines, is preceded by a double slash '//'. Narrative text that is not qualified by a code must start with a double slash '//' on a new line, and should preferably be the last information in this field.

Field 72 must not be used for information for which another field is intended.

The use of this field with unstructured text may require manual intervention and thus cause delay in automated systems.