# Master of vessel to comply with certain requests

> act-s231 — as in force on 2026-06-04 — C2026C00232 · Compilation No. 171 — https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2026C00232/latest/text

231 Master of vessel to comply with certain requests
          (1) The master of a vessel arriving in Australia must comply with any
              request by an authorised officer to:
                (a) give the authorised officer a list of all persons on the vessel
                    and prescribed particulars of each of them; or
                (b) gather together those persons or such of them as are specified
                    by the officer; or
                (c) make sure of the disembarkation from the vessel of those
                    persons or such of them as are specified by the officer.
          (2) If:
                (a) a person is on a vessel that has arrived in Australia; and
                (b) that person’s name is not on a list of persons on the vessel
                    given under subsection (1);
              the person is taken, for the purposes of section 230, to have been
              concealed on the vessel when it arrived.