2019‑2020‑2021

The Parliament of the

Commonwealth of Australia

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Presented and read a first time

Migration Amendment (Common Sense for All Visas) Bill 2021

No.      , 2021

(Mr Hill)

A Bill for an Act to amend the Migration Act 1958, and for related purposes

Contents

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

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

3............ Schedules............................................................................................ 2

Schedule 1—Amendments                                                                                                3

Migration Act 1958                                                                                                     3

A Bill for an Act to amend the Migration Act 1958, and for related purposes

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1  Short title

                   This Act is the Migration Amendment (Common Sense for All Visas) Act 2021.

2  Commencement

             (1)  Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note:          This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.

             (2)  Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.

3  Schedules

                   Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.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

Migration Act 1958

1  At the end of section 40

Add:

Provisions applying until 31 December 2021

             (4)  A requirement of this Act or the regulations that a visa, or a visa of a specified class, may only be granted to a person who is in Australia at the time of grant does not apply if the visa is granted:

                     (a)  on or after the commencement of this subsection; and

                     (b)  on or before 31 December 2021.

             (5)  A requirement of this Act or the regulations that a visa, or a visa of a specified class, may only be granted to a person who is outside Australia at the time of grant does not apply if:

                     (a)  the visa is granted:

                              (i)  on or after the commencement of this subsection; and

                             (ii)  on or before 31 December 2021; and

                     (b)  the person is not in immigration clearance at the time of grant.

             (6)  For the purposes of subsection (4) or (5), it does not matter whether the application for the visa was made before, on or after the commencement of this subsection.

             (7)  To avoid doubt, subsection (4) does not affect any requirement that the person not be in immigration clearance at the time of grant.