# Providing bogus documents or destroying identity documents

> act-s91WA — as in force on 2026-06-04 — C2026C00232 · Compilation No. 171 — https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2026C00232/latest/text

91WA Providing bogus documents or destroying identity documents
          (1) The Minister must refuse to grant a protection visa to an applicant
              for a protection visa if:
                (a) the applicant provides a bogus document as evidence of the
                    applicant’s identity, nationality or citizenship; or
                (b) the Minister is satisfied that the applicant:
                      (i) has destroyed or disposed of documentary evidence of
                          the applicant’s identity, nationality or citizenship; or
                     (ii) has caused such documentary evidence to be destroyed
                          or disposed of.
          (2) Subsection (1) does not apply if the Minister is satisfied that the
              applicant:










                 (a) has a reasonable explanation for providing the bogus
                     document or for the destruction or disposal of the
                     documentary evidence; and
                 (b) either:
                       (i) provides documentary evidence of his or her identity,
                           nationality or citizenship; or
                      (ii) has taken reasonable steps to provide such evidence.
          (3) For the purposes of this section, a person provides a document if
              the person provides, gives or presents the document or causes the
              document to be provided, given or presented.