Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

MIGRATION ACT 1958 - SECT 188

Officer may require evidence

  (1)   An officer may require a person whom the officer knows or reasonably suspects is a non - citizen to:

  (a)   present to the officer evidence (which might include a personal identifier) of being a lawful non - citizen; or

  (b)   present to the officer evidence (which might include a personal identifier) of the person's identity.

  (2)   The person must comply with the requirement within a period specified by the officer, being a prescribed period or such further period as the officer allows.

  (3)   Regulations prescribing a period for compliance may prescribe different periods and the circumstances in which a particular prescribed period is to apply which may be:

  (a)   when the requirement is oral; or

  (b)   when the requirement is in writing.