Migration Legislation Amendment Act (No. 3) 1997

No. 92, 1997

Migration Legislation Amendment Act (No. 3) 1997

No. 92, 1997

An Act to amend the Migration Act 1958

Contents

1 Short title..................................1

2 Commencement..............................1

3 Schedule(s).................................2

Schedule 1—Amendment of the Migration Act 1958 3

Migration Legislation Amendment Act (No. 3) 1997

No. 92, 1997

An Act to amend the Migration Act 1958

[Assented to 30 June 1997]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1  Short title

  This Act may be cited as the Migration Legislation Amendment Act (No. 3) 1997.

2  Commencement

  This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

3  Schedule(s)

  Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendment of the Migration Act 1958

1  Division 7 of Part 3 (heading)

Repeal the heading, substitute:

Division 7—Part to cease to be in force on 21 March 1998

2  Subsection 333(1)

Omit all the words after “in force”, substitute “on 21 March 1998”.

Note: The heading to section 333 is altered by omitting “5 years after commencement” and substituting “on 21 March 1998”.

3  Subsection 333(4)

Omit “4 years after commencement day”, substitute “21 March 1997”.

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 28 May 1997

Senate on 16 June 1997]