MIGRATION ACT 1958 - SECT 231 Master of vessel to comply with certain requests

MIGRATION ACT 1958 - SECT 231

  (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.