AUSTRALIAN PASSPORTS ACT 2005 - SECT 16 Reasons relating to financial assistance to travellers

AUSTRALIAN PASSPORTS ACT 2005 - SECT 16

  (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.