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Immigration Act 2009

Compliance and information - Power to require production of documents, etc

280: Power of immigration officer to request information and documents where liability for deportation or turnaround suspected

You could also call this:

“Immigration officer can request information to check if you can stay in New Zealand”

If an immigration officer thinks you might need to leave New Zealand or be turned away at the border, they can ask you to do some things. This is to help them figure out if you really do need to leave or be turned away.

They might ask you to:

Tell them your full name (or names if you use more than one), when you were born, what country you were born in, what country you’re a citizen of, and where you live.

Show them any documents that prove who you are.

Give them these identity documents to keep.

If you don’t have these documents with you, tell the officer where they are or who has them.

Before the officer asks you to do these things, they must:

Tell you that they think you might need to leave New Zealand or be turned away at the border.

Warn you that if you don’t do what they ask without a good reason, you could be arrested and held.

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View the original legislation for this page at https://legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1986/0120/latest/link.aspx?id=DLM1441022.

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Part 8 Compliance and information
Power to require production of documents, etc

280Power of immigration officer to request information and documents where liability for deportation or turnaround suspected

  1. If an immigration officer has good cause to suspect that a person is liable for deportation or turnaround, the officer may, for the purpose of establishing whether that is the case, request the person to do 1 or more of the following things:

  2. supply the person's full name (or names, if the person is known by more than 1 name), date of birth, country of birth, nationality, and residential address:
    1. produce any identity documents for inspection:
      1. surrender any identity document produced under paragraph (b):
        1. if the person does not currently have in his or her possession an identity document requested by the officer, give details to the officer of where it can be found or who is holding it.

          1. Before acting under subsection (1), the immigration officer must—

          2. inform the person that he or she suspects that the person is liable for deportation or turnaround; and
            1. warn the person that if the person fails without reasonable excuse to comply with his or her request, the person is liable to arrest and detention under this Act.

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              Notes
              • Section 280(1): replaced, on , by section 68 of the Immigration Amendment Act 2015 (2015 No 48).