Migration Regulations (Amendment) 1991 No. 484
EXPLANATORY STATEMENT STATUTORY RULES 1991 No. 484
Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Immigration, Local Government and Ethnic Affairs
Migration Act 1958
Migration Regulations (Amendment)
Section 181 of the Migration Act 1958 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations for the purposes of the Act. In addition sections 23 and 33 of the Act enable regulations to be made providing for different classes of visas and entry permits.
Subregulations 41(6) and 42(8) of the Migration Regulations currently suspend indefinitely the application to the Migration Regulations of subsections 23(5) and 33(5) of the Act.
Subsections 23(5) and 33(5) of the Act provide that regulations providing for different classes of visa and entry permits, and for the criteria which govern the grant of those visas and entry permits, to be taken to be repealed, if they have not been disallowed, 2 years after the day on which a regulation takes effect.
The purpose of the Regulations is to provide for the suspension of subsections 23(5) and 33(5) of the Act to be limited to the period ending 30 June 1992.