AUSTRALIAN PASSPORTS ACT 2005 - SECT 25 Demand for surrender of debtor's Australian travel document

AUSTRALIAN PASSPORTS ACT 2005 - SECT 25

  (1)   An officer may demand that a person surrender an Australian travel document to the officer if the officer suspects on reasonable grounds that the person owes money to the Commonwealth in respect of:

  (a)   expenses incurred by the Commonwealth on behalf of the person in a foreign country; or

  (b)   money lent to the person by the Commonwealth when the person was outside Australia; or

  (c)   expenses incurred by the Commonwealth in, or in connection with, effecting the person's departure from a foreign country.

  (2)   A person commits an offence if:

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

  (b)   the officer informs the person that the officer is authorised to make the demand; 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.