Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

MIGRATION ACT 1958 - SECT 221

  (1)   If:

  (a)   the controller of a vessel is given a notice under section   218 to transport a non - citizen; and

  (b)   the controller was a carrier of the non - citizen; and

  (c)   paragraphs 213(1)(a) and (b) apply to the non - citizen;

then the Commonwealth is not liable for the costs of transporting the non - citizen.

  (2)   If:

  (a)   the controller of a vessel is given a notice under section   218 to transport a non - citizen; and

  (b)   subsection   (1) does not apply;

then:

  (c)   the Commonwealth is liable to pay the controller's costs of the transport; and

  (d)   sections   210 to 216 apply to the transport and those costs.