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1998 – 1999 – 2000
THE PARLIAMENT
OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES
MIGRATION LEGISLATION AMENDMENT BILL (NO. 2)
2000
SUPPLEMENTARY EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
(Amendments to
be moved on behalf of the Government)
ISBN: 0642 43087X
NOTES ON AMENDMENTS
1 As a result of two recent amendments to
the Migration Act 1958 (“the Act”), section 475 of the Act
contains two subsections (3).
2 The Migration Legislation Amendment
Act (No. 1) 2000, which was passed by Parliament on Tuesday 7 March 2000,
inserts a new subsection 475(3). This amendment will be taken to have commenced
on 1 June 1999. However, the Border Protection Legislation Amendment Act
1999 (“the Border Protection Act”), which commenced on 16
December 1999, also inserted a new subsection 475(3).
Amendment
(1)
3 This amendment inserts new subclause (4A) into the
commencement provisions of the Bill. This new subclause provides that item 7A
of Schedule 2, which is inserted by amendment (5), is taken to have commenced on
16 December 1999, immediately after the commencement of item 11 of Schedule 1 to
the Border Protection Act.
Amendments (2), (3) and (4)
4 These amendments are consequential to amendment (5).
Amendment (5)
5 This amendment inserts item 7A in
Schedule 2 to the Bill to renumber the second subsection (3) in section 475, as
inserted by the Border Protection Act, as subsection 475(4).
(Circulated by authority of the
Minister for
Immigration and Multicultural Affairs
the Hon. Philip Ruddock MP)