EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES NO. 46
MIGRATION REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
(Issued by the authority of the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs)
Section 67 of the Migration Act 1958 (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 regulations make a number of drafting changes to the existing regulations to make them consistent with present drafting style and practice. The changes do not alter the effect of the regulations.
Regulation 1 amends the Migration Regulations as set out in the Schedule to effect only formal drafting changes.
Regulation 2 provides for the amendments referred to in regulation 1 to come to operation on 2 April 1984.