Social Services Amendment Act (No. 2) 1981 (Cth)

Social Services Amendment Act (No. 2) 1981

No. 170 of 1981

An Act to amend section 105a of the Social Services Act 1947

[Assented to 2 December 1981]

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:

Short title, &c.

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Social Services Amendment Act (No. 2) 1981.

(2) The Social Services Act 19471 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

Commencement

2. This Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on 30 October 1981.

Interpretation

3. Section 105a of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-section (1) the definition of “refugee child” and substituting the following definition:

“ ‘refugee child’ means—

(a) a child who has refugee status granted by the Australian Government;

 

(b) a child who has been (whether before or after the commencement of this definition) admitted into Australia as a refugee by the Australian Government; or

(c) a child who has been (whether before or after the commencement of this definition) admitted into Australia in accordance with the terms of a special humanitarian program of the Australian Government that has been approved by the Minister for the purposes of this definition.”; and

(b) by inserting after sub-section (1a) the following sub-section:

“(1b) An approval of a special humanitarian program for the purposes of the definition of ‘refugee child’ in sub-section (1) may relate to a program that was established before the commencement of that definition and may be expressed to have retrospective effect to the date of the establishment of that program.”.

NOTE

1. No. 26, 1947, as amended, For previous amendments, see Nos. 38 and 69, 1948; No. 16, 1949; Nos. 6 and 26, 1950; No. 22, 1951; Nos. 41 and 107, 1952; No. 51, 1953; No. 30, 1954; Nos. 15 and 38, 1955; Nos. 67 and 98, 1956; No. 46, 1957; No. 44, 1958; No. 57, 1959; No. 45, 1960; No. 45, 1961; Nos. 1 and 95, 1962; No. 46, 1963; Nos. 3 and 63, 1964; Nos. 57 and 152, 1965; No. 41, 1966; Nos. 10 and 61, 1967; No. 65, 1968; No. 94, 1969; Nos. 2 and 59, 1970; Nos. 16 and 67, 1971; Nos. 1, 14, 53 and 79, 1972; Nos. 1, 26, 48 and 103, 1973; No. 216, 1973 (as amended by No. 20, 1974); Nos. 2, 23 and 91, 1974; Nos. 34, 56, 101 and 110, 1975; Nos. 26, 37, 62 and 111, 1976; No. 159, 1977; No. 128, 1978; No. 121, 1979; No. 130, 1980; and Nos. 61 and 159, 1981.