# Prescribed forms

> sch-10 — as in force on 2026-06-01 — F2026C00497 · Compilation No. 287 — https://www.legislation.gov.au/F2026C00497/latest/text

Schedule 10—Prescribed forms
(regulation 1.03)


Form 1—Search Warrant—Valuables
(subregulation 5.32(1))

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA


Search Warrant—Valuables

To (insert name of officer and capacity by virtue of which he or she is an officer within the
meaning of the Act).
I, (name), the Secretary [or a delegate of the Secretary] of the Department of Home Affairs,
authorise you, (insert name of officer), under subsection 223(14) of the Migration Act 1958
(the Act), at any time of the day or night, with such assistance, and using such reasonable
force, as you think necessary:
    (a) to enter and search any building, premises, vehicle, vessel or place in which you have
         reasonable cause to believe there may be found any valuables to which a notice in
         force under section 223 of the Act relates; and
    (b) to seize any such valuables found in the course of such a search;
and for the purposes of the exercise of the foregoing powers, to stop any vehicle.
And for doing so this shall be your sufficient warrant.
This warrant remains in force for the period commencing on                         20
and ending on                            20 .
Dated                     20 .


                                                       Secretary [or Delegate]









                                                                            Prescribed forms Schedule 10
                                                                                   Search warrant Form 2




Form 2—Search warrant
(subregulation 5.32(2))

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
Search Warrant
To (insert name of officer and capacity by virtue of which he or she is an officer within the
meaning of the Act).
I, (name), the Secretary [or a delegate of the Secretary] of the Department of Home Affairs or
the Australian Border Force Commissioner [or a delegate of the Australian Border Force
Commissioner], authorise you, under subsection 251(4) of the Migration Act 1958 (the Act),
at any time of the day or night, with such assistance as you think necessary, to enter and
search any building, premises, vehicle, vessel or place in which you have reasonable cause to
believe there may be found:
    (a) an unlawful non-citizen, a removee or a deportee, within the meaning of the Act; or
    (b) a person to whom a temporary visa under the Act has been issued subject to a
         condition with respect to the work to be performed by that person; or
    (c) any document, book or paper relating to the entry or proposed entry into Australia of
         a person in circumstances in which that person:
         (i) would have become a prohibited immigrant within the meaning of the Act as in
               force from time to time before the commencement of the Migration Amendment
               Act 1983; or
         (ii) would have become a prohibited non-citizen within the meaning of the Act as in
               force from time to time after the commencement of the Migration Amendment
               Act 1983 but before the commencement of section 4 of the Migration Legislation
               Amendment Act 1989; or
         (iii) would have become an illegal entrant within the meaning of the Act as in force
               from time to time after the commencement of section 4 of the Migration
               Legislation Amendment Act 1989 but before commencement of section 7 of the
               Migration Reform Act 1992; or
         (iv) would have become, or would become, an unlawful non-citizen; or
    (d) any passport or document of identity of, or any ticket for the conveyance from a place
         within Australia to a place outside Australia of, an unlawful non-citizen, a removee or
         a deportee, within the meaning of the Act;
and to seize any such document, book, paper, passport, document of identity or ticket, as the
case may be, and to impound and detain it for such time as you think necessary, and for the
purposes of the exercise of the foregoing powers to stop any vessel or vehicle and to use such
reasonable force as is necessary.
And for doing so this shall be your sufficient warrant.
This warrant remains in force for the period commencing on                         20
and ending on                    20 .








Schedule 10 Prescribed forms
Form 2 Search warrant




Dated                   20 .
                                               Secretary or Australian Border Force
                                               Commissioner [or Delegate]