Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

MIGRATION ACT 1958 - SECT 4

             (1)  The object of this Act is to regulate, in the national interest, the coming into, and presence in, Australia of non-citizens.

             (2)  To advance its object, this Act provides for visas permitting non-citizens to enter or remain in Australia and the Parliament intends that this Act be the only source of the right of non-citizens to so enter or remain.

             (3)  To advance its object, this Act requires persons, whether citizens or non-citizens, entering Australia to identify themselves so that the Commonwealth government can know who are the non-citizens so entering.

             (4)  To advance its object, this Act provides for the removal or deportation from Australia of non-citizens whose presence in Australia is not permitted by this Act.