Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00800:section:249
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00800
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 249
Character Range: 773871–775141

249  Certain persons may be prevented from entering or landing
 (1) An officer may:
 (a) 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
 (b) 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.
 (1AA) 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:
 (a) is seeking to enter the migration zone; and
 (b) would, if in the migration zone, be an unlawful non‑citizen.
 (1A) 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:
 (a) requiring the vessel to travel to a port; and
 (b) requiring the person to remain on the vessel until it arrives at the port.
 (2) 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.