# Providing photographs and other images of faces to authorised systems

> act-s5BB — as in force on 2026-06-04 — C2026C00232 · Compilation No. 171 — https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2026C00232/latest/text

5BB Providing photographs and other images of faces to authorised
         systems
          (1) Subsections (2) and (3) apply if:
               (a) a provision of the migration law uses the expression
                   “authorised system”; and








                 (b) the provision requires a person to provide to an authorised
                     system a photograph or other image of the person’s face; and
                 (c) for the purposes of that requirement, the person submits to
                     the authorised system collecting:
                       (i) a photograph or other image of the person’s face; or
                      (ii) a photograph or other image from which the authorised
                           system can derive (such as by cropping) a photograph or
                           other image of the person’s face.
          (2) For the purposes of the migration law, if the authorised system
              collects a photograph or other image of the person’s face, the
              person is taken to provide the photograph or other image to the
              authorised system for the purposes of the requirement mentioned in
              paragraph (1)(b).
          (3) For the purposes of the migration law, if:
                (a) the authorised system collects a photograph or other image
                    from which the authorised system can derive (such as by
                    cropping) a photograph or other image of the person’s face;
                    and
                (b) the authorised system derives a photograph or other image of
                    the person’s face (the derived image) from the photograph or
                    other image that the authorised system collects;
              the person is taken to provide the derived image to the authorised
              system for the purposes of the requirement mentioned in
              paragraph (1)(b).
          (4) When used in this section (other than in paragraph (1)(a) of this
              section), authorised system has the same meaning as when used in
              the provision mentioned in paragraph (1)(a).