EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES NO. 48
IMMIGRATION (GUARDIANSHIP OF CHILDREN) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
(Issued by the authority of the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs)
Section 12 of the Immigration (Guardianship of Children) Act 1946, (the Act) empowers the Governor-General to make regulations prescribing all matters which by the Act are required or permitted to be prescribed or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to the Act.
The Act was amended by the Migration (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act 1983 by omitting the terms “immigrant child” and. “immigrant children” wherever occurring and substituting the terms “non-citizen child” and “non-citizen children” respectively.
The Schedule amends the Immigration (Guardianship of Children) Regulations by omitting the terms “immigrant child” and “immigrant children” wherever occurring and substituting the terms “non-citizen child” and “non-citizen children” respectively. The Schedule also omits the term “the Capital Territory” wherever occurring and substitutes the term “Territories and Local Government”.