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Immigration Act 2009

Compliance and information - Powers relating to deportation and turnaround

287: Special biometric information

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“Types of physical information you might need to provide when travelling to other countries”

For sections 288 to 290A, special biometric information means certain types of information that you might need to provide to enter or pass through another country. This information can include:

Your palm prints, which are images of the palms of your hands.

Your footprints, which are images of the bottoms of your feet.

Measurements of your whole body.

Photographs of your entire body.

These are examples of special biometric information that some countries might ask for when you travel there or through them.

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Part 8 Compliance and information
Powers relating to deportation and turnaround

287Special biometric information

  1. For the purposes of sections 288 to 290A, special biometric information means, in relation to any person, any of the following that are or may be required in order to meet the entry or transit requirements of any country to which or through which the person is to travel:

  2. the person's palm-prints:
    1. the person's footprints:
      1. measurements of the whole person:
        1. photographs of the whole person.

          Notes
          • Section 287: replaced, on , by section 73 of the Immigration Amendment Act 2015 (2015 No 48).