Border Protection Legislation Amendment Act 1999 (160 of 1999)

Schedule 1   Migration Act 1958

Part 4   Miscellaneous amendments

53   After subsection 249(1)

Insert:

(1AA) An officer may prevent a person from leaving a vessel on which the person arrived in Australia if the officer reasonably suspects that the person:

(a) is seeking to enter the migration zone; and

(b) would, if in the migration zone, be an unlawful non-citizen.