Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

FOREIGN PASSPORTS (LAW ENFORCEMENT AND SECURITY) ACT 2005 - SECT 17

  (1)   An enforcement officer may demand that a person surrender to the officer:

  (a)   a foreign travel document that has been obtained, or that the officer suspects on reasonable grounds has been obtained, by means of a false or misleading statement, false or misleading information or a false or misleading document; or

  (b)   a foreign travel document or other document that has been used, or that the officer suspects on reasonable grounds has been used, in the commission of an offence against this Act.

  (2)   A person commits an offence if:

  (a)   an enforcement officer demands under subsection   (1) that the person surrender a document; and

  (b)   the officer informs the person that the officer is authorised to demand that document; and

  (c)   the officer informs the person that it may be an offence not to comply with the demand; and

  (d)   the person has possession or control of the document; and

  (e)   the person fails to surrender the document to the officer immediately.

Penalty:   Imprisonment for 1 year or 20 penalty units, or both.

  (3)   A document surrendered to an enforcement officer under this section may be retained for so long as there is an enforcement officer who suspects on reasonable grounds:

  (a)   that the document was obtained by means of a false or misleading statement, false or misleading information or a false or misleading document; or

  (b)   that the document has been used in the commission of an offence against this Act.