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Immigration Act 2009

Visas - Visas generally - Visa conditions

54: Conditions on transit visas

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“Rules for transit visas can be changed or added”

When you get a transit visa, the Minister or an immigration officer can add extra rules to it, or change or remove the usual rules. They can do this when they give you the visa or later on.

If you already have a transit visa, the Minister or an immigration officer can add new rules, even if these rules aren’t usually part of transit visas. They can also change or cancel existing rules.

The Minister or an immigration officer can make these changes if you agree to them.

If they add, change, or remove any rules, they must tell you about it. The new rules start working either from the day you get your visa (if the changes happen when you get the visa), or from a date they tell you about (but not before they let you know about the changes).

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Part 3 Visas
Visas generally: Visa conditions

54Conditions on transit visas

  1. On granting a transit visa, the Minister or an immigration officer may—

  2. impose conditions in addition to those specified in transit instructions:
    1. vary or waive conditions that would otherwise apply to a transit visa.

      1. Following the grant of a transit visa, the Minister or an immigration officer may—

      2. impose further conditions, whether or not the conditions are specified in the transit instructions:
        1. vary or cancel conditions that would otherwise apply to a transit visa or were imposed under subsection (1).

          1. The Minister or an immigration officer may also do 1 or more of the things in subsection (2) by agreement with the visa holder.

          2. A condition imposed, varied, waived, or cancelled under this section—

          3. must be notified to the visa holder by the Minister or an immigration officer; and
            1. takes effect—
              1. from the date the visa is granted, if the condition is imposed, varied, or waived when the visa is granted; or
                1. from the date specified in the notice (being a date not earlier than the date of notification), in any other case.