Border Protection Legislation Amendment Act 1999 (160 of 1999)

Schedule 1   Migration Act 1958

Part 4   Miscellaneous amendments

43   After subsection 230(1)

Insert:

(1A) The master, owner, agent and charterer of a vessel are each guilty of an offence against this section if:

(a) a person is concealed on the vessel when it arrives in Australia; and

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


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