Migration Amendment Regulations 2002 (No. 9) (Cth)

Migration Amendment Regulations 2002 (No. 9)1

Statutory Rules 2002 No. 3472

I, PETER JOHN HOLLINGWORTH, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Migration Act 1958.

Dated 19 December 2002

PETER HOLLINGWORTH

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command

PHILIP RUDDOCK

Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and

Indigenous Affairs

1Name of Regulations

These Regulations are the Migration Amendment Regulations 2002 (No. 9).

2Commencement

These Regulations commence on gazettal.

3Amendment of Migration Regulations 1994

Schedule 1 amends the Migration Regulations 1994.

Schedule 1Amendment

(regulation 3)

  

[1]After regulation 2.10

insert

2.10AAWhere application must be made for certain gazetted visas

1. (1)

   This regulation applies to:

   1. (a)

      a person who is:

      1. (i)

         outside Australia; and

      2. (ii)

         a citizen of, or residing in, a foreign country specified by Gazette Notice for the purposes of this subparagraph; and

      3. (iii)

         in that foreign country; and

   2. (b)

      an application (other than an Internet application) made by the person for a visa that is specified by Gazette Notice for the purposes of this paragraph.

2. (2)

   Despite regulation 2.10 and anything in Schedule 1, the application must be made by:

   1. (a)

      posting the application (with the correct pre-paid postage) to a post office box address specified for the visa by Gazette Notice for the purposes of this paragraph; or

   2. (b)

      having the application delivered by a courier service to an address specified for the visa by Gazette Notice for the purposes of this paragraph.

3. (3)

   The application is taken to have been made outside Australia.

Notes

1. These Regulations amend Statutory Rules 1994 No. 268, as amended by 1994 Nos. 280, 322, 376 and 452; 1995 Nos. 3, 38, 117, 134, 268, 302 and 411; 1996 Nos. 12, 75 (regulations 7 and 8 were disallowed by the Senate on 11 September 1996), 76, 108, 121, 135, 198, 211 (regulations 4, 10, 11, 13.3, 14-37, 47-49, 51, 53-55, 74, 77.16, 77.19, 78, 85, 119 and 114 were disallowed by the Senate on 7 November 1996) and 276; 1997 Nos. 17, 64, 91, 92, 109, 137, 184, 185, 216, 263, 279, 288, 301 and 354; 1998 Nos. 36, 37, 104 (regulation 15 was disallowed by the Senate on 2 July 1998), 139, 210, 214, 284, 285 (disallowed by the Senate on 31 March 1999), 304, 305, 306 and 322; 1999 Nos. 8, 58, 64, 68 (as amended by 1999 Nos. 81 and 132), 76 (as amended by 1999 Nos. 81 and 132), 81 (as amended by 1999 No. 132), 82, 132, 155, 198, 220 (as amended by 1999 Nos. 259 and 321), 243, 259 (as amended by 2000 No. 259 and 2002 No. 213), 260 (as amended by 1999 No. 321), 321 and 325; 2000 Nos. 52, 62, 108, 192, 259 (as amended by 2000 No. 284) (item [4108] of Schedule 4 was disallowed by the Senate on 1 November 2000), 284 and 335; 2001 Nos. 27, 47, 86, 142, 162, 206, 239, 246, 283, 284, 285 and 291; Act No. 128, 2001; Statutory Rules 2001 No. 344; 2002 Nos. 10, 86, 121, 129 (disallowed by the Senate on 19 June 2002), 213, 230, 299 and 323.

2. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette