Certain persons may be prevented from entering or landing
249 Certain persons may be prevented from entering or landing
An officer may:
prevent a person whom the officer reasonably suspects to be an unlawful non‑citizen from leaving a vessel on which the person arrived in Australia; or
prevent a removee or deportee from leaving a vessel on which he or she has been placed;
and may take such action and use such force as are necessary for that purpose.
An officer may prevent a person from leaving a vessel on which the person arrived in Australia if the officer reasonably suspects that the person:
is seeking to enter the migration zone; and
would, if in the migration zone, be an unlawful non‑citizen.
To avoid doubt, and without limiting the generality of subsections (1) and (1AA), if a person of a kind referred to in paragraph (1)(a) or subsection (1AA) is on board a vessel (other than an aircraft), the actions that may be taken by an officer under subsections (1) and (1AA) include:
requiring the vessel to travel to a port; and
requiring the person to remain on the vessel until it arrives at the port.
The master of a vessel may, in relation to persons on board the vessel, do all things which an officer is, under subsections (1) and (1AA), authorized to do.
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