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Immigration Act 2009

Repeals, transitional provisions, saving provisions, and related matters - Transitional and savings provisions - Offences, evidence, and classified information

455: Offences

You could also call this:

“Breaking immigration laws by not following conditions or not providing required information”

You can break the law in two main ways when it comes to immigration. First, if you don’t follow a condition that was set for you, you’re breaking the law. This is true whether the condition was set under the current Immigration Act or the old one. It doesn’t matter if it was called a requirement or a condition in the old Act.

Second, you can break the law if you don’t give an immigration officer a document or information they ask for. This is against the law whether the officer asked for it under the current Immigration Act or the old one. But for the old Act, the officer must have had the right to ask for that document or information at the time.

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Immigration and citizenship > Visas
Immigration and citizenship > Border control
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Part 12 Repeals, transitional provisions, saving provisions, and related matters
Transitional and savings provisions: Offences, evidence, and classified information

455Offences

  1. A person commits an offence against this Act under section 343(1)(d) whether the condition concerned was—

  2. imposed (or deemed to be imposed) under this Act; or
    1. imposed under the former Act (whether as a requirement or a condition).

      1. A person commits an offence against section 344(a) of this Act whether the document or information was required by an immigration officer—

      2. under this Act; or
        1. under the former Act, if the officer could lawfully require the document or information under that Act.