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MIGRATION ACT 1958 - SECT 180

Detention of designated person

  (1)   If a designated person is not in immigration detention immediately after commencement, an officer may, without warrant:

  (a)   detain the person; and

  (b)   take reasonable action to ensure that the person is kept in immigration detention for the purposes of section   178.

  (2)   Without limiting the generality of subsection   (1), that subsection even applies to a designated person who was held in a place described in paragraph   11(a) (as in force at that time) or a processing area before commencement and whose release was ordered by a court.

  (3)   If a designated person escapes from immigration detention after commencement, an officer may, without warrant:

  (a)   detain the person; and

  (b)   take reasonable action to ensure that the person is kept in immigration detention for the purposes of section   178.


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