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280: Power of immigration officer to request information and documents where liability for deportation or turnaround suspected
or “Immigration officer can request information to check if you can stay in New Zealand”
You could also call this:

“Immigration officers can ask for information and documents from people who might be deported or turned away”

If you might be deported or turned around, an immigration officer can ask you to do certain things. They can ask you to do the same things mentioned in section 280(1). This might include giving information about yourself or showing documents. The officer can also ask you to hand over any travel tickets you have. If you don’t have tickets, they might ask for cash or something else valuable instead of tickets.

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

281Power to require information from person liable for deportation or turnaround

  1. Where a person is liable for deportation or turnaround, an immigration officer may require the person to—

  2. do any of the things in section 280(1); and
    1. produce and surrender any travel tickets, or cash or security in lieu of travel tickets, held by the person.

      Notes
      • Section 281: replaced, on , by section 69 of the Immigration Amendment Act 2015 (2015 No 48).