# Providing photographs and other images of faces to Minister and authorised officers

> act-s5BC — as in force on 2026-06-04 — C2026C00232 · Compilation No. 171 — https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2026C00232/latest/text

5BC Providing photographs and other images of faces to Minister
         and authorised officers
          (1) Subsection (3) applies if:
               (a) the migration law requires a person to provide a photograph
                   or other image of the person’s face to the Minister; and
               (b) for the purposes of that requirement:







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