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spouse or dependent child of a person described in subparagraph (i).".

14. After section 89A of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:

Persons to identify themselves

  "89B.(1) In this section:

'overseas vessel' means:

     (a) a vessel on which persons travel from outside Australia to a port and then to another port or ports; or

     (b) a vessel on which persons travel from a port to another port or ports and then to a place outside Australia.

"(2) A person, whether a citizen or a non-citizen, who travels, or appears to intend to travel, on an overseas vessel from a port to another port may be required by an officer at either port or by officers at both ports:

    (a)     to show the officer prescribed evidence of the person's identity; and

    (b)     to give the officer any information required to be given by this Act or the regulations.".

15.(1) After section 181 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:

Regulations about visa criteria

"182. To avoid doubt, regulations for the purpose of prescribing a criterion for visas, or entry permits, in a class may provide that the Minister, when required to decide whether an applicant for a visa, or entry permit, in the class satisfies the criterion:

     (a) is to get a specified person or organisation, or a person or organisation in a specified class, to:

       (i) give an opinion on a specified matter; or

      (ii) make an assessment of a specified matter; or

      (iii) make a finding about a specified matter; or

      (iv) make a decision about a specified matter; and

   (b) is:

         (i) to have regard to that opinion, assessment, finding or decision in; or

         (ii) to take that opinion, assessment, finding or decision to be correct for the purposes of;

     deciding whether the applicant satisfies the criterion.".

(2) Regulations purported to be made before the commencement of this section that could have been made if the section inserted in the Principal Act by subsection (1) had been in force are taken to have been validly made.

PART 5—OPERATION OF THE MIGRATION AMENDMENT ACT 1983

Absorbees never prohibited non-citizens

16. Subsection 8(2) of the Migration Amendment Act 1983 does not apply, and never has applied, to a person who:

  (a)     on the commencement of that Act, was in Australia; and

    (b)    before that commencement, had ceased to be an immigrant; and

  (c)     since that commencement, has not left Australia.

NOTES

   1. No. 3, 1971, as amended. For previous amendments, see Nos. 110 and 216, 1973; No. 37, 1976; No. 76, 1986; and No. 35, 1991.

   2. No. 62, 1958, as amended. For previous amendments, see No. 87, 1964; No. 10, 1966; Nos. 16 and 216,