Remand Centres (Amendment) Act 1982 (ACT)

Remand Centres (Amendment) Ordinance

1982

No. 19 of 1982

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following

Ordinance under the Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1910.

Dated 14 May 1982.

ZELMAN COWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency's Command,

MICHAEL HODGMAN

Minister of State for the Capital Territory

An Ordinance to amend the Remand Centres Ordinance 1976

Short title

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Remand Centres (Amendment)

Ordinance 1982.1

Persons who may be detained

2. Section 15 of the Remand Centres Ordinance 19762 is amended—

(a) by omitting from paragraph (1) (e) "and";

authority pursuant to sub-section 38 (3) of that Act; or

(b) by adding at the end of sub-section (1) the following paragraphs:

"(g) a person—

(i)   directed by an authorized officer pursuant to sub-section 36 (1) or (1 A ) or sub-section 36A (1), (2) or (3) of the Migration Act 1958 to be kept in the custody of the Superintendent of a remand centre;

(ii)   directed by the Minister of State for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs or an authorized officer pursuant to sub-section 38 (1) of that Act to be kept in the custody of the Superintendent of a remand centre;

(iii)   whose detention in the custody of the Superintendent of a remand centre is authorized by a prescribed

(iv)   directed by the Minister of State for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs or an officer pursuant to sub-section 39 (6) of that Act to be kept in the custody of the Superintendent of a remand centre; and

(h)	a person directed by the Minister of State for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs or an authorized officer pursuant to sub-section
12 (1) of the Immigration (Unauthorized Arrivals) Act 1980
to be kept in the custody of the Superintendent of a remand centre."; and

(c) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-sections:

"(5) For the purposes of paragraph (1) (g), 'authorized officer' and 'officer' have the same respective meanings as in the Migration Act 1958 and 'prescribed authority' means a person appointed under section 40 of that Act as a prescribed authority for the purposes of sections 38 and 39 of that Act.

"(6) For the purposes of paragraph (1) (h) , 'authorized officer' has

the same meaning as in the Immigration	(Unauthorized	Arrivals)	Act
1980.".

N O T E S

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 20 May 1982.

2.     No. 48 ,1976 as amended by No. 1,1978.