Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

AUSTRALIAN SECURITY INTELLIGENCE ORGANISATION ACT 1979 - SECT 34Y

             (1)  As soon as practicable after the person specified in a warrant issued under this Division is notified of the issue of the warrant and of the effect of this subsection, the person must deliver to someone exercising authority under the warrant every passport that:

                     (a)  is an Australian passport (as defined in the Australian Passports Act 2005 ), or a foreign passport, that has been issued to the person; and

                     (b)  the person has in his or her possession or control.

Penalty:  Imprisonment for 5 years.

             (2)  The Director‑General must cause a passport delivered under subsection (1) to be returned to the person to whom it was issued, as soon as practicable after the end of the period specified in the warrant as the period during which the warrant is to be in force, but may cause the passport to be returned to that person earlier.

             (3)  Subsection (2) does not require:

                     (a)  the return of a passport during the period specified in another warrant, issued in relation to the person under this Division, as the period during which the other warrant is to be in force; or

                     (b)  the return of a passport that has been cancelled.

             (4)  After a passport is delivered under subsection (1) and before it is returned under subsection (2), a person approved under subsection 24(1) in relation to the warrant mentioned in subsection (1) of this section may:

                     (a)  inspect or examine the passport; and

                     (b)  make copies or transcripts of it.