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Immigration Act 2009

Miscellaneous provisions - Immigration officers and refugee and protection officers

389: Immigration officers’ functions and powers

You could also call this:

“What immigration officers are allowed to do”

Immigration officers can be given different jobs and powers. These jobs and powers can be grouped into different types.

You can be allowed to do one specific job or have one specific power. Or, you might be given several jobs or powers that are similar.

There are four main groups of jobs and powers that immigration officers can have:

  1. Deciding about visas: These are the jobs and powers described in Part 3 of the law.

  2. Deciding about entry permission: These are the jobs and powers described in Part 4 of the law.

  3. Making sure people follow the rules and dealing with those who don’t: These are the jobs and powers described in Part 8 of the law.

  4. The power to detain people: This is a special power described in section 312 of the law.

These groups help to organise the different kinds of work that immigration officers do, but there can be other ways to group their jobs and powers too.

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Part 11 Miscellaneous provisions
Immigration officers and refugee and protection officers

389Immigration officers’ functions and powers

  1. An immigration officer may be authorised to perform or exercise individual functions and powers, or functions and powers of 1 or more classes.

  2. Without limiting the way in which functions and powers are classified under subsection (1), functions and powers may be classified as follows:

  3. visa decision-making functions and powers, being the functions and powers set out in Part 3:
    1. entry permission decision-making functions and powers, being the functions and powers set out in Part 4:
      1. compliance and enforcement functions and powers, being the functions and powers set out in Part 8:
        1. the power of detention, being the power set out in section 312.