Section 160Migration Act 1958 (Cth)

Conditions of criminal justice visa

(1) The regulations may provide that criminal justice visas are subject to specified conditions.

(2) It is a condition of a criminal justice entry visa for a non‑citizen that the non‑citizen must not do any work in Australia, whether for reward or otherwise.

(3) In subsection (2):

work, in relation to a non‑citizen, does not include work for the purposes for which there is a criminal justice certificate or criminal justice stay warrant about the non‑citizen, including, if those purposes are or include the imprisonment of the non‑citizen, work as a prisoner.

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