Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2008A00085:clause:5_19
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Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 5 cl 19
Character Range: 41486–42026

19  Validation of past decisions
A decision in relation to an application covered by subitem 5B(1) or 7(2) of Schedule 3 to the Australian Citizenship (Transitionals and Consequentials) Act 2007 before the commencement of items 17 and 18 of this Schedule is as valid, and is taken always to have been as valid, as it would have been if the amendments made by those items had been in force at the time of the decision.

[Minister's second reading speech made in—
Senate on 25 June 2008
House of Representatives on 4 September 2008]
(143/08)