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Migration Reform Act 1992

No. 184 of 1992

An Act to reform the law relating to migration

[Assented to 7 December 1992]

  The Parliament of Australia enacts:

Short title etc.

  1.(1) This Act may be cited as the Migration Reform Act 1992.

  (2) In this Act, "Principal Act" means the Migration Act 19581.

Commencement

2.(1) Sections 1, 2 and 31 commence on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent.

  (2)     Sections 6 and 32 commence on 1 July 1993.

(3)     The remaining provisions of this Act commence on 1 November 1993.

3. After section 3 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:

Object of Act

"3A.(1) The object of this Act is to regulate, in the national interest, the coming into, and presence in, Australia of non-citizens.

"(2) To advance its object, this Act provides for visas permitting non-citizens to enter or remain in Australia and the Parliament intends that this Act be the only source of the right of non-citizens to so enter or remain.

"(3) To advance its object, this Act requires persons entering Australia to identify themselves so that the Commonwealth government can know who are the non-citizens so entering.

"(4) To advance its object, this Act provides for the removal or deportation from Australia of non-citizens whose presence in Australia is not permitted by this Act.".

Interpretation

  4. Section 4 of the Principal Act is amended:

     (a) by omitting from subsection (1) the definitions of "accompanying child", "accompanying spouse", "holder", "port", "score" and "visa" and substituting respectively the following definitions:

     " 'holder', in relation to a visa, means, subject to section 26ZR (visas only held if in force) the person to whom it was granted or a person included in it;

     'port' means:

       (a)     a proclaimed port; or

       (b)     a proclaimed airport;

     'score', in relation to a visa applicant, means the total number of points given to the applicant under section 30 in the most recent assessment or re-assessment under Subdivision B of Division 2 of Part 2;

     'Visa' has the meaning given by section 24 and includes an 'old visa';";

     (b)    by omitting from subsection (1) the definitions of "entry permit", "entry visa", "exempt non-citizen", "member", "period of grace", "permanent entry permit", "presiding member", "Principal Member", "processing area", "prohibited person", "properly endorsed valid entry permit", "properly endorsed valid entry visa", "refugee", "review authority", "reviewable decision", "review officer", "review under Part 3", "section 20 notice", "Senior Member", "statutory visitor", "stowaway", "temporary entry permit", "travel only visa", "Tribunal", "unprocessed person", "valid entry permit", "valid temporary entry permit", "valid permanent entry permit" and "valid visa";

   (c)     by inserting in subsection (1) the following definitions:

" 'allowed inhabitant of the Protected Zone' means an