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MIGRATION LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (MIGRATION AGENTS) ACT 1999 - NOTES

Act No. 175 of 1999 as amended

This compilation was prepared on 29 October 2001

[This Act was amended by Act No. 129 of 2001]

Amendments from Act No. 129 of 2001

[Schedule 2 (item 10) repealed and substituted heading to Schedule 2 (item 5)

Schedule 2 (item 10) commenced on 1 March 2000]

Prepared by the Office of Legislative Drafting,
Attorney-General's Department, Canberra

  

  

  


Contents

1............ Short title [see Note 1]....................................................................... 1

2............ Commencement [see Note 1].............................................................. 1

3............ Schedule(s).......................................................................................... 1

Schedule 1--Amendments commencing on Royal Assent                                2

Migration Act 1958                                                                                                      2

Division 7--Part ceases to be in force on 21 March 2003                        2

Schedule 2--Amendments commencing on Proclamation                                 3

Migration Act 1958                                                                                                      3

305A..... Publication of additional statement about cancellation or suspension of registration             3

Division 3A--Documents relating to clients of inactive agents and deceased agents   4

306A..... Objects of this Division...................................................................... 4

306B..... Inactive agents.................................................................................... 5

306C..... Clients................................................................................................. 6

306D..... Power to obtain copies of client documents from inactive agent....... 6

306E...... Power to obtain copies of client documents from representative of deceased inactive agent  7

306F...... Power to obtain copies of client documents from representative of deceased registered agent               8

306G..... Reasonable compensation................................................................... 8

306H..... Failure to comply with notice............................................................ 8

306J...... Self-incrimination................................................................................ 9

306K..... Migration Agents Registration Authority to give copies of client documents to clients        9

306L...... Compensation--constitutional safety-net....................................... 10

Notes                                                                                                              13


Notes to the Migration Legislation Amendment (Migration Agents) Act 1999

Note 1

Act No. 175, 1999; assented to 22 December 1999.

Commencement: Sections 1-3 and Schedule 1: 22 December 1999
Schedule 2: 1 March 2000 (see Gazette 1999, GN7).


 

 



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