EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

Migration Act 1958

Migration Regulations 1994

SPECIFICATION OF PRESCRIBED INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS FOR THE PURPOSES OF REGULATIN 5.34E OF THE MIGRATION REGULATIONS 1994

1. This Instrument is made under regulations 1.17 and 5.34E of the Migration Regulations 1994 (‘the Regulations’).
2. Regulation 1.17 provides that the Minister may, by Notice published in the Gazette, specify matters required by individual provisions of the Regulations to be specified for the purposes of those provisions.
3. Regulation 5.34E provides that the organisations specified by the Minister in a Gazette Notice made under regulation 5.34E are prescribed organisations for the purposes of paragraph 336F(1)(e) of the Migration Act 1958 (‘the Act’).
4. Paragraph 336F(1)(e) of the Act allows officers authorised in writing by the Secretary to disclose identifying information, for authorised purposes, to one or more prescribed international organisations (paragraph 336F(1)(e)).

5. The purpose of the Instrument is to specify certain international organisations so that they will be prescribed international organisations for the purposes of paragraph 336F(1)(e) of the Act.

6.                   6. The Attorney General’s Department was consulted in relation to the drafting of the instrument.

7. The instrument commences on the day after it is registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments.