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.