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StatuteMigration Act 1958

Section 153 — Migration Act 1958: Removal or deportation not contempt etc. if no stay certificate or warrant

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(1) Subject to subsection (2), if: (a) this Act requires the removal or deportation of a non-citizen; and (b) there is no criminal justice stay certificate or criminal justice stay warrant about the non-citizen; any other law, or anything done under any other law, of the Commonwealth or a State (whether passed or made before or after the commencement of this section), not being an Act passed after that commencement expressed to be exempt from this section, does not prevent the removal or deportation. (2) Subsection (1) does not permit the removal or deportation of a non-citizen if that removal or deportation would be in breach of an order of the High Court, the Federal Court or the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Division 2).

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