Immigration Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1954. No. 6

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE IMMIGRATION ACT 1901-1949.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Immigration Act 1901-1949.

Dated this tenth day of January, 1954 .

W. J. Slim

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Immigration.

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Amendments of the Immigration Regulations. 

1.—(1.) Regulation 6 of the Immigration Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Maintenance guarantees.

“6.—(1.) The Minister may, in such circumstances as he thinks fit, require a maintenance guarantee to be given in relation to a person seeking to enter the Commonwealth.

“(2.) A maintenance guarantee shall be given in such form and for such period as the Minister determines.

“(3.) Where, during the period for which a maintenance guarantee under this regulation has been given, the funds of the Commonwealth or of a State, or of a public or charitable institution, are, by reason of—

(a)the infirmity of mind or body of the person in relation to whom the maintenance guarantee is given;

(b) the insufficiency of means of that person to support himself; or

(c) any other cause,

expended, either directly or indirectly, in the maintenance of that person, an amount equal to the amount of the funds so expended is a debt due and payable, by the person who gave the maintenance guarantee, to the Commonwealth, the State or the institution, as the case may be.

“(4.) A debt due and payable to the Commonwealth, to a State or to an institution under the last preceding sub-regulation may be sued for and recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction by the Commonwealth, the State or the institution, as the case may be, or by a person

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1954.

  Statutory Rules 1932, No. 103, as amended by Statutory Rules 1933, No. 128; 1940, No. 144; 1941, No. 66; 1946, No. 20; 1947, No. 161; 1949, No. 45; and 1952, No. 53.

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authorized by the Commonwealth, the State or the institution, as the case may be, to sue for and recover debts due and payable under the last preceding sub-regulation to the Commonwealth, the State or the institution, as the case may be.

“(5.) For the purposes of this regulation, the maintenance of a person includes—

(a) the, provision of medical, surgical or dental treatment of that person; and

(b)the payment to that person of any age, invalid or widow’s pension or of any unemployment, sickness or rehabilitation benefit or of any other allowance for the maintenance of that person.”.

(2.) A maintenance guarantee given under regulation 6 of the Immigration Regulations and in force immediately before the commencement of these Regulations shall continue to have effect as if these Regulations had not come into operation.

Offences by master of vessel.

2. Regulation 34 of the Immigration Regulations is amended by omitting paragraph (b) and inserting in its stead the following paragraph:—

“(b)refuses or neglects to comply with a requirement of an officer under regulation 31 of these Regulations; or”.

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