Migration Amendment Regulations 2005 (No. 6) (Cth)

Migration Amendment Regulations 2005 (No. 6)1

Select Legislative Instrument 2005 No. 171

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 21 July 2005

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 2005 (No. 6).

2Commencement

These Regulations commence on the day they are registered.

3Amendment of Migration Regulations 1994

Schedule 1 amends the Migration Regulations 1994.

Schedule 1Amendment

(regulation 3)

[1]After regulation 5.15A

insert

5.15CExcised offshore places

1. (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. (2)

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

   1. (a)

      all islands that:

      1. (i)

         form part of Queensland; and

      2. (ii)

         are north of latitude 21° south;

   2. (b)

      all islands that:

      1. (i)

         form part of Western Australia; and

      2. (ii)

         are north of latitude 23° south;

   3. (c)

      all islands that:

      1. (i)

         form part of the Northern Territory; and

      2. (ii)

         are north of latitude 16° south.

Note

1. All legislative instruments and compilations are registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments kept under the Legislative Instruments Act 2003