Migration Amendment Regulations 2003 (No. 1) (Cth)

Migration Amendment Regulations 2003 (No. 1)1

Statutory Rules 2003 No. 572

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 7 April 2003

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 2003 (No. 1).

2Commencement

These Regulations commence on gazettal.

3Amendment of Migration Regulations 1994

Schedule 1 amends the Migration Regulations 1994.

Schedule 1Amendments

(regulation 3)

  

[1]Schedule 1, paragraph 1224A (3) (a)

substitute

1. (a)

   Applicant must hold a valid passport issued by a foreign country specified in a Gazette Notice for this paragraph.

Note foreign country is defined in paragraph 22 (1) (f) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901.

1. (aa)

   Application by a person who holds a valid passport mentioned in paragraph (a) must be made at an address specified for the country of issue in a Gazette Notice for this paragraph.

[2]Schedule 2, clause 462.111, definition of usual occupation

omit

[3]Schedule 2, clauses 462.211 and 462.212

substitute

462.211 The applicant:

1. (a)

   has no dependent children; and

2. (b)

   is at least 18 but has not turned 31.

[4]Schedule 2, clause 462.216

omit

paragraph 462.212 (a) or (b).

insert

paragraph 1224A (3) (a) of Schedule 1.

[5]Schedule 2, paragraph 462.221 (a)

substitute

1. (a)

   continues to satisfy the criteria in paragraph 462.211 (a) and clauses 462.215, 462.216 and 462.217; and

2. (aa)

   continues to hold the passport mentioned in paragraph 1224A (3) (a) of Schedule 1, or a valid replacement passport issued by the country concerned; and

[6]Schedule 2, paragraph 462.221 (d)

omit

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, 323, 347, 348 and 354.

2. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette