Section 274 — Secretary or Australian Border Force Commissioner may issue documents containing information concerning certain persons

274 Secretary or Australian Border Force Commissioner may issue documents containing information concerning certain persons

(1) This section applies to a person who:

(a) is a deportee who has not yet been deported; or

(b) is a removee who has not yet been removed; or

(c) has been refused immigration clearance and has not subsequently been immigration cleared.

(2) Where the Secretary or Australian Border Force Commissioner thinks that the issue to a person of a document under subsection (3) relating to another person, being a person to whom this section applies, would facilitate the making of arrangements for the transportation, by aircraft, of the other person from Australia, the Secretary or Australian Border Force Commissioner may give the first-mentioned person a document under subsection (3) relating to the other person.

(3) A document for the purposes of subsection (2):

(a) must be in the approved form; and

(b) must contain a photograph of the person concerned (if available); and

(c) must state, to the best of the Secretary’s or Australian Border Force Commissioner’s knowledge, the name and nationality of the person concerned; and

(d) may include such other information as the Secretary or Australian Border Force Commissioner thinks appropriate.

Part 3—Migration agents and immigration assistance Division 1—Preliminary