Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00156:section:6
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00156
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 6
Character Range: 74718–75838

6  Certain persons in Australia to be treated as eligible persons etc.
 (1) The Minister may, by order in writing, declare that a specified person, or every person included in a specified class of persons, being a person who, but for this subsection, would not be an eligible person for the purposes of this Act, shall, or shall in specified circumstances (whether circumstances that occurred before or occur after the making of the order) in which he or she was or is in Australia, be treated as having been or as being an eligible person for the purposes of this Act.
 (2) The Minister may, by legislative instrument, make an order declaring that, notwithstanding anything in this Act, a specified person, or every person included in a specified class of persons, being a person who, but for this subsection, would be an eligible person for the purposes of this Act, shall, or shall in specified circumstances, be treated as if he or she were not an eligible person for the purposes of this Act.
 (4) Nothing in any other provision of this Act shall be taken, by implication, to limit the generality of this section.