EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
Subject: Migration Act 1958
Migration (Review) Regulations (Amendment)
Section 181 of the Migration Act 1958 (the Act) provides the power in so far as is relevant to prescribe matters which are required by the Act and which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for the carrying out or giving effect to the Act.
In addition sections 115 and 116 of the Act provide that regulations may provide for inter alia,
the types of decision to be reviewed
the manner and form of applications for such reviews, and
the persons who may apply for such reviews.
The purpose of the proposed regulations is to amend the Migration (Review) Regulations as a consequence of extending the time in which illegal entrants in Australia on 19 December 1989 may apply to regularise their status.
Regulation 1 amends regulation 2IB of the Migration (Review) Regulations to extend the deadline of 1 July 1990 to 1 November 1990 before which certain illegal entrants may lodge applications for review.
Authority: Sections 115, 116, 181 Migration Act 1958
Issued by the Minister of State for Immigration, Local Government and Ethnic Affairs