Section 91WA — Providing bogus documents or destroying identity documents

91WA Providing bogus documents or destroying identity documents

(1) The Minister must refuse to grant a protection visa to an applicant for a protection visa if:

(a) the applicant provides a bogus document as evidence of the applicant’s identity, nationality or citizenship; or

(b) the Minister is satisfied that the applicant:

(i) has destroyed or disposed of documentary evidence of the applicant’s identity, nationality or citizenship; or

(ii) has caused such documentary evidence to be destroyed or disposed of.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply if the Minister is satisfied that the applicant:

(a) has a reasonable explanation for providing the bogus document or for the destruction or disposal of the documentary evidence; and

(b) either:

(i) provides documentary evidence of his or her identity, nationality or citizenship; or

(ii) has taken reasonable steps to provide such evidence.

(3) For the purposes of this section, a person provides a document if the person provides, gives or presents the document or causes the document to be provided, given or presented.