MIGRATION.

No. 87 of 1964.

An Act to amend the Migration Act 1958.

[Assented to 5th November, 1964.]

BE it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—

Short title and citation.

1.—(1.)     This Act may be cited as the Migration Act 1964.

(2.)  The Migration Act 1958 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3.)  The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Migration Act 1958–1964.

Commencement.

2.    This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

Exemptions.

3.    Section eight of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by omitting from paragraph (c) of sub-section (1.) the word “or”;

(b) by adding at the end of sub-section (1.) the following word and paragraph:—

“; or (e) a person who—

(i) is for the time being exempted, by instrument under the hand of the Minister, from the requirements of this Division relating to entry permits; or

(ii) is included in a class of persons who are for the time being so exempted,

not being a person in respect of whom a declaration is in force under the next succeeding sub-section.”;

(c) by inserting in sub-section (2.), after the letter “(d)”, the words “, or a person included in a class of persons exempted under paragraph (e),”;

(d) by omitting from paragraph (b) of sub-section (3.) the word “or”; and

(e) by adding at the end of sub-section (3.) the following word and paragraph:—

“; or (d) in the case of a person referred to in paragraph (e) of that sub-section—if he ceases to be such a person, whether by his own act, by act of the Minister or otherwise.”.

Proof of certain other matters.

4.    Section fifty-seven of the Principal Act is amended by inserting in paragraph (d), after the word “from” (wherever occurring), the words “, or left Australia in,”.

Regulations.

5.    Section sixty-seven of the Principal Act is amended by inserting in sub-section (1.), after paragraph (a), the following paragraph:—

“(aa) making provision for or in relation to the furnishing or obtaining of information with respect to—

(i) persons on board a vessel arriving at a port in Australia in the course of, or at the conclusion of, a voyage or flight that commenced at, or during which the vessel called at, a place outside Australia; and

(ii) persons on board a vessel leaving a port in Australia and bound for, or calling at, a place outside Australia;”.