# Authorised officers must require and carry out identification tests

> act-s261AB — as in force on 2026-06-04 — C2026C00232 · Compilation No. 171 — https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2026C00232/latest/text

261AB Authorised officers must require and carry out identification
        tests
          (1) The authorised officer must, other than in the circumstances
              prescribed for the purposes of subsection 261AA(1):
                (a) require, in writing or orally, the non-citizen to provide one or
                    more personal identifiers, of the type or types prescribed, by
                    way of one or more identification tests carried out by the
                    authorised officer; and
               (b) carry out the one or more identification tests on the
                    non-citizen.
          (2) However:
               (a) if the types of identification tests that the authorised officer
                   may carry out is specified under section 5D—each
                   identification test must be of a type so specified; and
               (b) each identification test must be carried out in accordance
                   with Subdivision B; and
               (c) unless the authorised officer has reasonable grounds to
                   believe that the non-citizen is not a minor or an incapable
                   person—each identification test must be carried out in
                   accordance with the additional requirements of
                   Division 13AB.