Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) If a competent authority believes on reasonable grounds that a person (the debtor ) owes money to the Commonwealth in respect of:
(a) expenses incurred by the Commonwealth on behalf of the debtor in a foreign country; or
(b) money lent to the debtor by the Commonwealth when the debtor was outside Australia; or
(c) expenses incurred by the Commonwealth in, or in connection with, effecting the debtor's departure from a foreign country;
the competent authority may make a refusal/cancellation request in relation to the debtor.
Note: See also Subdivision D.
(2) If a competent authority makes a request under subsection (1), the Minister may refuse to issue an Australian travel document to the debtor.
(4) In this section:
"competent authority" , in relation to a debtor, means a person who has authority to incur expenses on behalf of, or lend money to, the debtor on behalf of the Commonwealth.