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2002
PARLIAMENT OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MIGRATION
LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (TRANSITIONAL MOVEMENT) BILL
2002
SUPPLEMENTARY EXPLANATORY
MEMORANDUM
(Government)
NOTES ON AMENDMENT
Amendment (1)
1. The purpose of this amendment to the proposed definition of
“transitory person” in subsection 5(1) is to clarify that a person
who has been assessed to be a refugee for the purposes of the Refugees
Convention, as amended by the Refugees Protocol, is not a “transitory
person”.
2. This means that a person who has been assessed to be
a refugee for the purposes of the Refugees Convention, as amended by the
Refugees Protocol, cannot be brought to Australia for a temporary purpose under
proposed new section 198B, as contained in item 5 of Schedule 1 to the
Bill.
(Circulated by authority of the
Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous
Affairs,
The Hon. Philip Ruddock MP)