Migration Act 1958

This section applies if the Migration Agents Registration Authority is considering making a decision under section 311A to bar a former registered migration agent from being a registered migration agent for a period.

The Authority may, by written notice given to the former agent, require him or her to provide the Authority with prescribed information or prescribed documents within the specified period and in the specified manner.

A period specified in a notice under this section must end at least 14 days after the notice was given.

Section 332H sets out when the former agent is taken to have been given the notice.

A person commits an offence if:

the person is subject to a requirement under this section; and

the person contravenes the requirement.

An offence against subsection (4) is an offence of strict liability.

For strict liability, see section 6.1 of the Criminal Code.

A person is not excused from giving information or providing a document on the ground that the information or provision of the document may tend to incriminate the person.

However:

any information or document provided in response to a requirement under subsection (2); and

any information or thing (including any document) obtained as a direct or indirect result of information or a document provided in response to a requirement under subsection (2);