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Section 231 — Master of vessel to comply with certain requests

Migration Act 1958 s 231 Australia Compilation: 18 May 2026 Verified: 2026-05-23

Text of provision

(1) The master of a vessel arriving in Australia must comply with any request by an authorised officer to:

(a) give the authorised officer a list of all persons on the vessel and prescribed particulars of each of them; or

(b) gather together those persons or such of them as are specified by the officer; or

(c) make sure of the disembarkation from the vessel of those persons or such of them as are specified by the officer.

(2) If:

(a) a person is on a vessel that has arrived in Australia; and

(b) that person’s name is not on a list of persons on the vessel given under subsection (1); the person is taken, for the purposes of section 230, to have been concealed on the vessel when it arrived.

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