# Minister may give removal pathway directions

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199C Minister may give removal pathway directions

               Direction powers
          (1) The Minister may, by written notice given to a removal pathway
              non-citizen, direct the non-citizen to do one or more of the
              following things:









                 (a) complete, sign and submit an application for one or more of
                     the following documents (including doing and providing all
                     things required for the application process by the person or
                     authority to which it is to be submitted):
                       (i) a passport;
                      (ii) a travel-related document within the meaning of the
                           Australian Passports Act 2005;
                     (iii) a foreign travel document within the meaning of the
                           Foreign Passports (Law Enforcement and Security) Act
                           2005;
                 (b) complete, sign and submit any other document or form
                     required for, or to facilitate, travel (including doing and
                     providing all things required for submission by the person or
                     authority to which it is to be submitted);
                 (c) provide documents or information to an officer or another
                     person specified in the direction;
                 (d) attend an interview or appointment with an officer or another
                     person specified in the direction;
                 (e) report in person to an officer or another person in accordance
                     with instructions specified in the direction.
          (2) Without limiting subsection (1), the Minister may, by written
              notice given to a removal pathway non-citizen, direct the
              non-citizen to do a thing, or not do a thing, if the Minister is
              satisfied that the non-citizen doing, or not doing, the thing is
              reasonably necessary to:
                (a) determine whether there is a real prospect of the removal of
                     the non-citizen from Australia under section 198 becoming
                     practicable in the reasonably foreseeable future; or
                (b) facilitate the removal of the non-citizen from Australia under
                     that section.
               Note 1:      For the circumstances in which the Minister must not give a direction
                            under subsection (1) or (2), see section 199D.
               Note 2:      The Minister may give a direction under subsection (1) or (2) to a
                            removal pathway non-citizen during the period that the non-citizen’s
                            removal is not required or authorised under section 198 as a result of










                         the Minister considering whether to exercise a Ministerial intervention
                         power in relation to the non-citizen (see section 197E).

          (3) The Minister may, by written notice given to a removal pathway
              non-citizen, revoke a removal pathway direction given to the
              non-citizen.

               Period for compliance
          (4) A removal pathway direction must specify:
               (a) the period within which the non-citizen must do a specified
                   thing; or
               (b) for a direction not to do a specified thing—the period during
                   which the non-citizen must not do the thing.

               Consequences of non-compliance
          (5) A removal pathway direction must state that a non-citizen who
              refuses or fails to comply with the direction may commit an
              offence under section 199E.

               Interaction with monitoring conditions on certain bridging visas
          (6) To avoid doubt, if a removal pathway non-citizen covered by
              paragraph (b) of the definition of that expression in subsection 5(1)
              refuses or fails to comply with a removal pathway direction, the
              refusal or failure does not constitute a failure to comply with a
              requirement of a monitoring condition (within the meaning of
              subsection 76B(4)) for the purposes of paragraph 76B(1)(d).

               Multiple and concurrent directions
          (7) A non-citizen may be given more than one removal pathway
              direction.
          (8) However, the Minister must not give a removal pathway direction
              to a non-citizen to do a thing, or not do a thing:
                (a) that is the subject of a direction previously given by the
                    Minister to the non-citizen; and









                 (b) for which the period specified in the previous direction for
                     the thing has not ended.

               Natural justice does not apply
          (9) The rules of natural justice do not apply to an exercise of power
              under this section.