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MIGRATION ACT 1958 - SECT 261AB

Authorised officers must require and carry out identification tests

  (1)   The authorised officer must, other than in the circumstances prescribed for the purposes of subsection   261AA(1):

  (a)   require, in writing or orally, the non - citizen to provide one or more personal identifiers, of the type or types prescribed, by way of one or more identification tests carried out by the authorised officer; and

  (b)   carry out the one or more identification tests on the non - citizen.

  (2)   However:

  (a)   if the types of identification tests that the authorised officer may carry out is specified under section   5D--each identification test must be of a type so specified; and

  (b)   each identification test must be carried out in accordance with Subdivision B; and

  (c)   unless the authorised officer has reasonable grounds to believe that the non - citizen is not a minor or an incapable person--each identification test must be carried out in accordance with the additional requirements of Division   13AB.


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