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Australian Citizenship Act 2007
10BProviding photographs and other images of faces to the Minister or authorised persons
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#### 10B Providing photographs and other images of faces to the Minister or authorised persons
(1) This section applies if:
(a) the citizenship law requires a person to provide a photograph or other image of the person’s face to the Minister; and
(b) for the purposes of that requirement:
(i) the person provides to the Minister (the recipient) a photograph or other image from which the Department can derive (such as by cropping) a photograph or other image of the person’s face; and
(ii) the Department derives a photograph or other image of the person’s face (the derived image) from the photograph or other image that the person provides.
(2) This section also applies if:
(a) the citizenship law requires a person to provide a photograph or other image of the person’s face to a person mentioned in paragraph 40(1)(d) or (e); and
(b) for the purposes of that requirement:
(i) the person provides to a person mentioned in paragraph 40(1)(d) or (e) (the recipient) a photograph or other image from which the Department can derive (such as by cropping) a photograph or other image of the person’s face; and
(ii) the Department derives a photograph or other image of the person’s face (the derived image) from the photograph or other image that the person provides.
(3) For the purposes of the citizenship law, the person is taken to provide the derived image to the recipient for the purposes of the requirement mentioned in paragraph (1)(a) or (2)(a) of this section.