Section 221 — Migration Act 1958 (Cth)

(1) If:

(a) the controller of a vessel is given a notice under section 218 to transport a non‑citizen; and

(b) the controller was a carrier of the non‑citizen; and

(c) paragraphs 213(1)(a) and (b) apply to the non‑citizen;

then the Commonwealth is not liable for the costs of transporting the non‑citizen.

(2) If:

(a) the controller of a vessel is given a notice under section 218 to transport a non‑citizen; and

(b) subsection (1) does not apply;

then:

(c) the Commonwealth is liable to pay the controller’s costs of the transport; and

(d) sections 210 to 216 apply to the transport and those costs.

Related sections

• s 218 — Vessels required to convey deportees or other removees
• s 219 — Exemption from complying
• s 220 — Waiver of requirement
• s 222 — Orders restraining certain non‑citizens from disposing etc. of property
• s 223 — Secretary or Australian Border Force Commissioner may give direction about valuables of detained non‑citizens
• s 224 — Dealing with seized valuables

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