Border Protection Legislation Amendment Act 1999 (160 of 1999)

Schedule 1   Migration Act 1958

Part 4   Miscellaneous amendments

58   At the end of subsection 271(1)

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; and (j) evidence that a person who travelled to and entered Australia on board a vessel, when entering, either:

(i) failed to produce to an officer, upon demand by that officer, a passport; or

(ii) produced to an officer a passport that was not an Australian passport;

is prima facie evidence that the person was, when entering, a non-citizen; and

(k) evidence that a non-citizen who entered Australia on board a vessel failed, when entering, to produce to an officer, upon demand by that officer, evidence of a visa:

(i) that is in effect; and

(ii) that permits the non-citizen to travel to and enter Australia;

is prima facie evidence that the non-citizen did not, when entering, hold such a visa.