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MIGRATION ACT 1958 - SECT 258E

General rules for carrying out identification tests

    An identification test that an authorised officer carries out under section   257A:

  (a)   must be carried out in circumstances affording reasonable privacy to the person; and

  (b)   must not be carried out in the presence or view of a person whose presence is not necessary for the purposes of the identification test or required or permitted by another provision of this Act; and

  (c)   must not involve the removal of more clothing than is necessary for carrying out the test; and

  (d)   must not involve more visual inspection than is necessary for carrying out the test.



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