Section 268 — Migration Act 1958 (Cth)

(1) This Division binds the Crown in right of the Commonwealth, of each of the States, of the Australian Capital Territory and of the Northern Territory.

(2) For the purposes of this Division, a notice may be given to the Commonwealth, a State or Territory by giving it to a person employed by the Commonwealth, State or Territory, respectively, being a person who, under a law of the Commonwealth, State or Territory, respectively, has a duty of disbursing public money, and a notice so given is taken, for the purposes of this section, to have been given to the Commonwealth, the State or the Territory, as the case may be.

Related sections

• s 265 — Debt from failure to comply with garnishee notice
• s 266 — Future debts
• s 267 — Secretary or Australian Border Force Commissioner may freeze amounts to secure future debts
• s 268AA — Definitions
• s 268AB — Division binds the Crown
• s 268AD — Powers conferred on magistrates in their personal capacity

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