Commonwealth Numbered Acts

IMMIGRATION (UNAUTHORIZED ARRIVALS) ACT 1980 No. 112 of 1980 - SECT 13

13. (1) Where a relevant passenger disembarks from an aircraft or ship, or
leaves the appointed airport at which he disembarked from an aircraft, in
accordance with a permit granted under sub-section 9 (4), the master of the
aircraft or ship is liable to pay to the Commonwealth an amount equal to the
sum of-

   (a)  any amounts paid by the Commonwealth to the person for the maintenance
        of the person, or of the spouse or a child of the person; and

   (b)  any amounts expended by the Commonwealth for the maintenance of the
        person, during the period commencing on the day on which he so
        disembarks or leaves that appointed airport and ending on the day on
        which he departs from Australia or becomes subject to the provisions
        of the Migration Act 1958 by reason of the grant of an entry permit or
        the giving of a direction under sub- section 10 (2).

(2) Where a relevant passenger from an aircraft or ship is taken into custody
under section 12, the master of the aircraft or ship is liable to pay to the
Commonwealth a fair sum-

   (a)  for the cost of keeping and maintaining the person while he is kept in
        custody in pursuance of this Act; and

   (b)  in a case where the person is conveyed from Australia in accordance
        with arrangements under section 11 or otherwise-for the cost of
        transporting the person, and a custodian of the person, from the place
        of custody to the ship or aircraft upon which the person is to be
        conveyed from Australia in accordance with those arrangements.

(3) For the purposes of sub-section (1), an amount paid by the Commonwealth to
a person by way of pension, allowance or other benefit under the Social
Services Act 1947 for the benefit of that person or of the spouse or a child
of that person shall be deemed to be an amount paid by the Commonwealth to
that person for the maintenance of that person or of that spouse or child, as
the case may be.
(4) In this section, "relevant passenger", in relation to an aircraft or ship
to which section 9 applies, has the same meaning as it has in section 9.