Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00800:section:34
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00800
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 34
Character Range: 144649–145384

34  Absorbed person visas
 (1) There is a class of permanent visas to remain in, but not re‑enter, Australia, to be known as absorbed person visas.
 (2) A non‑citizen in the migration zone who:
 (a) on 2 April 1984 was in Australia; and
 (b) before that date, had ceased to be an immigrant; and
 (c) on or after that date, has not left Australia, where left Australia has the meaning it had in this Act before 1 September 1994; and
 (d) immediately before 1 September 1994, was not a person to whom section 20 of this Act as in force then applied;
is taken to have been granted an absorbed person visa on 1 September 1994.
 (3) Subdivisions AA, AB, AC (other than section 68) and AH do not apply in relation to absorbed person visas.