Australian Citizenship Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1988 No. 3251

 

Australian Citizenship Regulations2

(Amendment)

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Australian Citizenship Act 1948.

Dated 24 November 1988.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

Robert Ray

Minister of State for Immigration, Local Government and Ethnic Affairs

 

Amendment of Statutory Rules 1984 No. 351

Regulation 12 of Statutory Rules 1984 No. 351 is amended:

(a) by omitting from subregulation (1a) “authorized” and substituting “authorised”;

(b) by inserting after subregulation (1a) the following subregulations:

“(1b) Where an application is made, in accordance with subregulation (1), for registration of the name of a person and an authorised officer decides that he or she is not satisfied that any copy or extract previously issued to the applicant has been lost or destroyed, an authorised officer shall notify the applicant in writing of the reasons for that decision and that an application in writing for review of the decision may be made to the Secretary not later than 60 days after the day of the notification.

“(1c) The officer conducting a review:

(a) shall cause the applicant for the review to be notified of the officer’s decision; and

(b) if that decision is unfavourable—shall cause to be sent to the applicant, together with the notification, a statement of the reasons for the decision.

 

(S.R. 60/88)—Cat No. 14/30.5.1988

 

“(1d) Where the officer conducting a review is satisfied that any copy of, or extract from, a part of the register previously issued to the applicant for registration of the name of a person has been lost or destroyed, the officer shall cause an authorised officer to enter the name of the person in the register.”;

(c) by omitting from subregulation (2) “authorized” and substituting “authorised”; and

(d) by adding at the end the following subregulation:

“(3) In this regulation, review means review by a Senior Executive Service officer, within the meaning of the Public Service Act 1922,holding, or performing the duties of, an office in the Department.”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 2 December 1988.

2. Statutory Rules 1960 No. 62 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1988 No. 324 and see also Statutory Rules 1988 No. 324.

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