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False representation that a person is a registered migration agent

Offence title:

 

False representation that a person is a registered migration agent

Act:

 

283 Migration Act 1958

Offence:

(1)   A person who is not a registered migration agent must not directly or indirectly represent that he or she is such an agent.

(2)   A person must not directly or indirectly represent that another person who is not a registered migration agent is such an agent.

 

Penalty:

 

Imprisonment for 10 years

 

Summary/Indictable/mixed:

 

Mixed

 

Jurisdiction:

 

Local, District or Supreme Court

How committed:

 

Person A, a builder, places an advert in the press purporting to be a registered migration agent.

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