# Power to obtain documents from inactive migration agent

> act-s306D — as in force on 2026-06-04 — C2026C00232 · Compilation No. 171 — https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2026C00232/latest/text

306D Power to obtain documents from inactive migration agent
          (1) This section applies to a person who is an inactive migration agent
              if the Migration Agents Registration Authority has reason to
              believe that:
                (a) before becoming an inactive migration agent and while the
                     person was a registered migration agent, the person gave, or
                     anticipated giving, immigration assistance to one or more
                     clients; and
                (b) the inactive migration agent has in his or her possession or
                     control documents that:
                       (i) are or were connected with the giving, or anticipated
                           giving, of that immigration assistance to those clients;
                           and
                      (ii) relate to the affairs of those clients.
          (2) The Migration Agents Registration Authority may, by written
              notice given to the inactive migration agent, require him or her:









                 (a) to make copies of any such documents and to produce those
                     copies to the Authority within the specified period and in the
                     specified manner; or
                 (b) to produce to the Authority, within the specified period and
                     in the specified manner, any such documents that are owned
                     by those clients or that were provided to the agent by, or on
                     behalf of, those clients.
               Note:      An example of a document provided to a registered migration agent is
                          a client’s passport.

          (3) A notice under subsection (2) must set out the effect of
              sections 306G and 306H.
          (4) A notice under subsection (2) need not identify any particular
              client or clients.
          (5) A period specified in a notice under subsection (2) must end at
              least 14 days after the notice was given.
               Note:      Section 332H sets out when the inactive migration agent is taken to
                          have been given the notice.