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CRIMES ACT 1914

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CRIMES ACT 1914 SECT 22A

22A State orders relating to passports
(1)
If, under a law of a State, a court makes an order requiring a person charged with, or convicted of:
(a)
a serious narcotics offence against a law of that State; or
(b)
such other serious offence against a law of that State as is specified in the first-mentioned law;

to surrender possession of any Australian passport held by the person, the person must surrender the passport to the Registrar, or other appropriate officer, of the court to be dealt with in accordance with that law.

(2)
In this section:
serious narcotics offence has the same meaning as in section 7 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 1987 .

 

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