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291: Further applications for compulsion order
or “Repeated requests for court orders to make someone comply with immigration rules”
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“Immigration officers can bring helpers when doing their job”

An immigration officer can bring someone to help them do their job. This helper can be another person who works in the same department as the immigration officer or someone who works as a customs officer. The immigration officer gets to decide if they want to bring a helper or not. This rule is part of the Immigration Act 2009 and applies when the immigration officer is doing their work.

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292Immigration officer may have assistance

  1. For the purpose of performing his or her functions under this Part, an immigration officer may be accompanied, if he or she thinks fit, by any other employee of the Department or by a customs officer.