Aliens Act 1973
No. 132 of 1973
AN ACT
To
amend the Aliens Act 1947-1966.
[Assented to 13 November 1973]
BE
IT ENACTED by the Queen, the Senate and the House of Representatives of
Australia, as follows:—
Short title
and citation.
1. (1) This
Act may be cited as the Aliens Act 1973.
(2) The Aliens
Act 1947-1966 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.
(3) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may
be cited as the Aliens Act 1947-1973.
Commencement.
2.This Act shall come
into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
Aliens to
register.
3. Section 7 of the Principal Act is amended by
omitting from sub-sections (3) and (4) the word “twenty-one” and substituting
the word “eighteen”.
Making of
application for registration before entry into Australia.
4. Section 7a
of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-section (2) the word “twenty-one”
and substituting the word “eighteen”.
Exemption
from registration.
5. Section 8 of the Principal Act is amended by
omitting from sub-sections (1) and (2) the word “, nine”.
Annual
notification of address, occupation and marital status.
6. Section 9 of the Principal Act is repealed.
Offences to
be continuing.
7. Section 17 of the Principal Act is amended—
(a)
by omitting from sub-section (2) the word “twenty-one” (wherever occurring) and
substituting the word “eighteen”; and
(b)
by omitting sub-section (3).
Settlement
of cases.
8. Section 18 of the Principal Act is amended by
omitting the words “,section nine”.
Formal
amendments.
9.The
Principal Act is further amended as set out in the Schedule.
SCHEDULE Section
9
FORMAL
AMENDMENTS
1. The
following provisions of the Principal Act are amended by omitting any number
expressed in words that is used, whether with or without the addition of a
Setter or letters, to identify a section of that Act or of another Act and
substituting that number expressed in figures:—
Sections
8(1) and (2), 11(4)(b), 17(2), 18 and 18a(1)
and (3).
2. The
following provisions of the Principal Act are amended by omitting the words “of
this Act” and “of this section” (wherever occurring):—
Sections
8(1) and (2), 11(1), 17(2), 18 and 18a(1).
3.The Principal Act is further amended as
set out in the following table:—
Provision | Amendment |
Sub-sections 11(2) and (3)...... | Omit “the first day of January, One thousand nine hundred and
forty-eight,”, substitute “1st January, 1948,”.
|
Sub-section 11(4)................... | Omit “of this section” (first occurring). |