# Service of document on person in immigration detention

> reg-5.02 — as in force on 2026-06-01 — F2026C00497 · Compilation No. 287 — https://www.legislation.gov.au/F2026C00497/latest/text

5.02 Service of document on person in immigration detention
               For the purposes of the Act and these Regulations, a document to be served on a
               person in immigration detention may be served by giving it to the person himself
               or herself, or to another person authorised by him or her to receive documents on
               his or her behalf.









Division 5.2—Procedure of commissioners and prescribed authorities
               Note:    If a person is proposed to be deported because he or she was convicted of certain
                        serious offences (set out in section 203 of the Act), he or she may ask the Minister to
                        appoint a Commissioner to inquire into whether the grounds for the deportation have
                        been made out.
                        Section 253 of the Act provides that if a person arrested as a deportee asserts that he or
                        she is not the person named in the deportation order, and makes a statutory declaration
                        saying so, the person must be taken before a prescribed authority, who must inquire
                        into whether there are reasonable grounds for supposing the person to be a deportee.
                        The persons who may be prescribed authorities are set out in section 255 and include a
                        judge or former judge, a legal practitioner of at least 5 years’ standing, and a
                        magistrate.