Migration Amendment (Visa Labels) Regulation 2015 (Cth)

Migration Amendment (Visa Labels) Regulation 2015

Select Legislative Instrument No. 144, 2015

I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulation.

Dated 20 August 2015

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Peter Dutton

Minister for Immigration and Border Protection

Contents

1............ Name.................................................................................................. 1

2............ Commencement.................................................................................. 1

3............ Authority............................................................................................ 1

4............ Schedules............................................................................................ 1

Schedule 1—Amendments                                                                            2

Migration Regulations 1994                                                                    2

1Name

This is the Migration Amendment (Visa Labels) Regulation 2015.

2Commencement

(1)Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1.  The whole of this instrument	1 September 2015.	1 September 2015

Note:This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

(2)Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3Authority

This instrument is made under the Migration Act 1958.

4Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Migration Regulations 1994

1  Division 2.4 of Part 2

Repeal the Division.

2  Schedule 13

Insert in its appropriate numerical position:

Part 45—Amendments made by the Migration Amendment (Visa Labels) Regulation 2015

4501  Operation of Schedule 1

                  Despite the repeal of Division 2.4 of Part 2 of these Regulations by Schedule 1 to the Migration Amendment (Visa Labels) Regulation 2015, that Division, as in force immediately before the repeal, continues to apply on and after 1 September 2015 in relation to a request made under section 70 of the Act for evidence of a visa if:

                    (a)  the request was made before 1 September 2015; and

                    (b)  the visa evidence charge for the request had been paid before 1 September 2015.