Demand for surrender of debtor’s Australian travel document
25 Demand for surrender of debtor’s Australian travel document
An officer may demand that a person surrender an Australian travel document to the officer if the officer suspects on reasonable grounds that the person owes money to the Commonwealth in respect of:
expenses incurred by the Commonwealth on behalf of the person in a foreign country; or
money lent to the person by the Commonwealth when the person was outside Australia; or
expenses incurred by the Commonwealth in, or in connection with, effecting the person’s departure from a foreign country.
A person commits an offence if:
an officer demands under subsection (1) that the person surrender the person’s Australian travel document; and
the officer informs the person that the officer is authorised to make the demand; and
the officer informs the person that it may be an offence not to comply with the demand; and
the person has possession or control of the document; and
the person fails to surrender the document to the officer immediately.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 1 year or 20 penalty units, or both.
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