Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00800:section:253:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00800
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 253 (pt 2/2)
Character Range: 801952–803145

deportee may be kept in immigration detention or such detention as the Minister, Secretary or Australian Border Force Commissioner directs:
 (a) pending deportation, until he or she is placed on board a vessel for deportation;
 (b) at any port or place in Australia at which the vessel calls after he or she has been placed on board; or
 (c) on board the vessel until its departure from its last port or place of call in Australia.
 (9) In spite of anything else in this section, the Minister, Secretary or Australian Border Force Commissioner may at any time order the release (either unconditionally or subject to specified conditions) of a person who is in detention under this section.
 (10) An officer may, without warrant, detain a person who:
 (a) has been released from detention under subsection (9) subject to conditions; and
 (b) has breached any of those conditions.
 (11) Nothing contained in, or done under, this section prevents the Supreme Court of a State or Territory or the High Court from ordering the release from detention of a person held in detention under this section where the Court finds that there is no valid deportation order in force in relation to that person.