AUSTRALIAN PASSPORTS ACT 2005 - SECT 23 Demand for surrender of suspicious Australian travel document

AUSTRALIAN PASSPORTS ACT 2005 - SECT 23

  (1)   An officer may demand that a person surrender a document to the officer if:

  (a)   the document is an Australian travel document that has been obtained, or that the officer suspects on reasonable grounds has been obtained, by means of a false or misleading statement, false or misleading information or a false or misleading document; or

  (b)   the document is an Australian travel document or other document that has been used, or that the officer suspects on reasonable grounds has been used, in the commission of an offence against this Act.

  (2)   A person commits an offence if:

  (a)   an officer demands under subsection   (1) that the person surrender a document; and

  (b)   the officer informs the person that the officer is authorised to demand that document; and

  (c)   the officer informs the person that it may be an offence not to comply with the demand; and

  (d)   the person has possession or control of the document; and

  (e)   the person fails to surrender the document to the officer immediately.

Penalty:   Imprisonment for 1 year or 20 penalty units, or both.