Commonwealth Numbered Acts

MIGRATION LAWS AMENDMENT ACT (No. 2) 1992 No. 176, 1992 - SECT 14

14. After section 89A of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:
Persons to identify themselves

"89B.(1) In this section:
'overseas vessel' means:

   (a)  a vessel on which persons travel from outside Australia to a port and
        then to another port or ports; or

   (b)  a vessel on which persons travel from a port to another port or ports
        and then to a place outside Australia.

"(2) A person, whether a citizen or a non-citizen, who travels, or appears to
intend to travel, on an overseas vessel from a port to another port may be
required by an officer at either port or by officers at both ports:

   (a)  to show the officer prescribed evidence of the person's identity; and

   (b)  to give the officer any information required to be given by this Act
        or the regulations.".