# Reports about unauthorised maritime arrivals

> act-s198AJ — as in force on 2026-06-04 — C2026C00232 · Compilation No. 171 — https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2026C00232/latest/text

198AJ Reports about unauthorised maritime arrivals
          (1) The Minister must cause to be laid before each House of the
              Parliament, within 15 sitting days of that House after the end of a
              financial year, a report on the following:
                (a) arrangements made by regional processing countries during
                    the financial year for unauthorised maritime arrivals who
                    make claims for protection under the Refugees Convention as
                    amended by the Refugees Protocol, including arrangements
                    for:
                      (i) assessing those claims in those countries; and
                     (ii) the accommodation, health care and education of those
                          unauthorised maritime arrivals in those countries;








                 (b) the number of those claims assessed in those countries in the
                     financial year;
                 (c) the number of unauthorised maritime arrivals determined in
                     those countries in the financial year to be covered by the
                     definition of refugee in Article 1A of the Refugees
                     Convention as amended by the Refugees Protocol.
          (2) However, a report under this section need deal with a particular
              regional processing country in accordance with subsection (1) only
              so far as information provided by the country makes it reasonably
              practicable for the report to do so.
          (3) A report under this section must not include:
               (a) the name of a person who is or was an unauthorised maritime
                   arrival; or
               (b) any information that may identify such a person; or
               (c) the name of any other person connected in any way with any
                   person covered by paragraph (a); or
               (d) any information that may identify that other person.

Subdivision C—Transitory persons etc.