Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00528:section:16
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00528
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 16
Character Range: 27374–28339

16  Reasons relating to financial assistance to travellers
 (1) If a competent authority believes on reasonable grounds that a person (the debtor) owes money to the Commonwealth in respect of:
 (a) expenses incurred by the Commonwealth on behalf of the debtor in a foreign country; or
 (b) money lent to the debtor by the Commonwealth when the debtor was outside Australia; or
 (c) expenses incurred by the Commonwealth in, or in connection with, effecting the debtor's departure from a foreign country;
the competent authority may make a refusal/cancellation request in relation to the debtor.
Note: See also Subdivision D.
 (2) If a competent authority makes a request under subsection (1), the Minister may refuse to issue an Australian travel document to the debtor.
 (4) In this section:
competent authority, in relation to a debtor, means a person who has authority to incur expenses on behalf of, or lend money to, the debtor on behalf of the Commonwealth.