Statutory Rules

1979 No. 288

REGULATIONS UNDER THE IMMIGRATION (GUARDIANSHIP OF CHILDREN) ACT 1946*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Immigration (Guardianship of Children) Act 1946.

Dated this twentieth day of December 1979.

ZELMAN COWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs

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AMENDMENTS OF THE IMMIGRATION (GUARDIANSHIP OF CHILDREN) REGULATIONS†

Interpretation

1. Regulation 3 of the Immigration (Guardianship of Children) Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting “ , Department of the Interior ” from paragraph (g) of the definition of “ authority ” and substituting “ to the Department of the Capital Territory ”; and

(b) by omitting “ Administrator ” from paragraph (h) of that definition and substituting “ Director of Child Welfare in the Department of Community Development ”.

Prescribed officer for the purposes of section 4a of the Act

2. Regulation 3a of the Immigration (Guardianship of Children) Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from paragraph (g) “ Interior ” and substituting “ Capital Territory ”; and

* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 24 December 1979.

† Statutory Rules 1946 No. 195 as amended by Statutory Rules 1952 No. 70; 1956 No. 117; and 1963 No. 47.

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(b) by omitting paragraph (h) and substituting the following paragraph:

“ (h) the Director of Child Welfare in the Department of Community Development of the Northern Territory.”.

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