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Immigration Act 2009

Visas - Visas generally - Visa conditions

56: Visa holder must comply with conditions

You could also call this:

“You must follow all the rules that come with your visa”

If you have a visa, you must follow the rules that come with it. These rules are called conditions.

Some conditions are set by other laws or in immigration instructions. You have to follow these even if you don’t know about them or don’t understand what happens if you break them.

The Minister or an immigration officer can add new conditions or change existing ones. If this happens, they will tell you about it. You must follow these new or changed conditions too. The rules for this are in section 50, 51, 52, 53, or 54.

If the Minister or an immigration officer tells you about new or changed conditions in the way described in section 386A, the law assumes you know about them unless you can prove you didn’t.

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Part 3 Visas
Visas generally: Visa conditions

56Visa holder must comply with conditions

  1. The holder of a visa that is subject to conditions must comply with the conditions of the visa.

  2. In the case of conditions imposed by or under any other Act, or specified in immigration instructions, the obligation to comply with those conditions arises whether or not the visa holder is aware of the conditions, or of the implications of not complying with them.

  3. A visa holder must comply with conditions imposed or varied and notified to the holder by the Minister or an immigration officer under section 50, 51, 52, 53, or 54.

  4. It is presumed, in the absence of evidence to the contrary on the balance of probabilities, that a visa holder was notified of any conditions imposed or varied under section 50, 51, 52, 53, or 54 if notice of them was given in accordance with section 386A.

Notes
  • Section 56(4): amended, on , by section 16 of the Immigration Amendment Act 2015 (2015 No 48).