Section 280 — Immigration Act 2009: Power of immigration officer to request information and documents where liability for deportation or turnaround suspected

280 Power of immigration officer to request information and documents where liability for deportation or turnaround suspected (1) If an immigration officer has good cause to suspect that a person is liable for deportation or turnaround, the officer may, for the purpose of establishing whether that is the case, request the person to do 1 or more of the following things: (a) supply the person's full name (or names, if the person is known by more than 1 name), date of birth, country of birth, nationality, and residential address: (b) produce for inspection documentary or other evidence of the person’s identity: (c) produce any passport or certificate of identity relating or purporting to relate to the person, whether or not it also relates to any other person: (d) produce any passport or certificate of identity relating to any dependent child of the person who the immigration officer also has good cause to suspect is liable for deportation or turnaround: (e) surrender any of the documents or other things produced under paragraph (b), (c), or (d): (f) if the person does not currently have in his or her possession any of the documents or other things referred to in paragraph (b), (c), or (d), give the officer details of where they can be found and who is holding them. (2) Before acting under subsection (1), the immigration officer must— (a) inform the person that he or she suspects that the person is liable for deportation or turnaround; and (b) warn the person that if the person fails without reasonable excuse to comply with his or her request, the person is liable to arrest and detention under this Act. Compare: 1987 No 74 s 138A(1), (2)