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389: Immigration officers’ functions and powers
or “What immigration officers are allowed to do”
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“Chief executive can appoint refugee and protection officers with specific powers”

The chief executive can choose people who work in the Department to be refugee and protection officers. These officers can do all the jobs and use all the powers that come with this role. However, there’s a special rule in section 33(2)(b) that limits what they can do. This rule is important and affects how refugee and protection officers can use their powers.

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Part 11 Miscellaneous provisions
Immigration officers and refugee and protection officers

390Designation of refugee and protection officers

  1. The chief executive may designate as refugee and protection officers the persons employed in the Department that the chief executive considers necessary for the purposes of this Act.

  2. A person designated as a refugee and protection officer may perform all the functions and exercise all the powers of a refugee and protection officer.

  3. Subsection (2) is subject to section 33(2)(b).