Migration Amendment Regulations 2003 (No. 8) (Cth)

Migration Amendment Regulations 2003 (No. 8)1

Statutory Rules 2003 No. 2832

I, PHILIP MICHAEL JEFFERY, 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 4 November 2003

P. M. JEFFERY

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command

AMANDA VANSTONE

Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and

Indigenous Affairs

1Name of Regulations

 These Regulations are the Migration Amendment Regulations 2003 (No. 8).

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 5.15A

insert

5.15BExcised offshore places

• (1)

  For paragraph (d) of the definition of excised offshore place in subsection 5 (1) of the Act, the Coral Sea Islands Territory is prescribed.

• (2)

  For paragraph (e) of the definition of excised offshore place in subsection 5 (1) of the Act, the following islands are prescribed:

  • (a)

    all islands that:

    • (i)

      form part of Queensland; and

    • (ii)

      are north of latitude 21° south;

  • (b)

    all islands that:

    • (i)

      form part of Western Australia; and

    • (ii)

      are north of latitude 23° south;

  • (c)

    all islands that:

    • (i)

      form part of the Northern Territory; and

    • (ii)

      are north of latitude 16° south.

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; Act No. 5, 2003; Statutory Rules 2003 Nos. 57, 94, 106, 122, 154, 224 (disallowed by the Senate on 9 October 2003) and 239.

2. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette