Australian Citizenship Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1987 No. 312

 

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 Regulations under the Australian Citizenship Act 1948.

Dated 21 December 1987.

N.M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

M. J. Young

Minister of State for Immigration,

Local Government and Ethnic Affairs

 

Commencement

1. These Regulations shall come into operation on 1 January 1988.

Principal Regulations

2. In these Regulations, “Principal Regulations” means the Australian Citizenship Regulations.

3. The Principal Regulations are amended by inserting after regulation 4 the following regulation:

Resident return visas

“5. For the purposes of sub-subparagraph 5a (1) (d) (i) (a) of the Act, the following class of visas is prescribed, namely, resident return visas within the meaning of regulation 29ac of the Migration Regulations.”.

Repeal of regulation 21

4. Regulation 21 of the Principal Regulations is repealed.

(S.R. 225/87)—Cat. No. 15/25.11.1987

Review of decisions

5. Regulation 22 of the Principal Regulations is amended by omitting paragraph (1) (a).

Second Schedule

6. The Second Schedule to the Principal Regulations is amended:

(a) by omitting from Forms 9 and 10:

“, before me—

Signature

(Justice of the High Court, Judge, Magistrate, Commissioner for Declarations, Justice of the Peace, Notary Public or authorized officer as the case may be)”; and

(b) by omitting Form 12.

Further amendments

7. The Principal Regulations are further amended as set out in the Schedule.

 

SCHEDULE Regulation 7

FURTHER AMENDMENTS OF THE PRINCIPAL REGULATIONS

Insert “or her” after “his” in paragraphs 8 (3) (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e), (4) (b), (c) and (d), (6) (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e) (wherever occurring) and 11 (c).

Insert “or she” after “he” in regulation 4 and paragraphs 8 (3) (f) and (4) (e).

Insert “or her” after “him” in paragraph 8 (4) (da).

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 22 December 1987.

2.Statutory Rules 1960 No. 62 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1987 No. 87 and see also Statutory Rules 1987 Nos. 87 and 88.

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