Migration Amendment (Chest X‑ray Requirements) Regulations 2019

I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 21 February 2019

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

David Coleman

Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Migration Regulations 1994

1  Name

  This instrument is the Migration Amendment (Chest X-ray Requirements) Regulations 2019.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument 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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

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

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under the Migration Act 1958.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Migration Regulations 1994

1  Subclause 785.223(1) of Schedule 2

Omit “(2) to (4)”, substitute “(2) to (5)”.

2  At the end of clause 785.223 of Schedule 2

Add:

 (5) The applicant:

 (a) is an unauthorised maritime arrival; and

 (b) holds or has held a Subclass 785 (Temporary Protection) visa or a Subclass 790 (Safe Haven Enterprise) visa; and

 (c) at the time the visa was granted, satisfied any of the following:

 (i) subclause (3) of this clause;

 (ii) this subclause;

 (iii) subclause 790.223(3);

 (iv) subclause 790.223(5).

3  Subclause 790.223(1) of Schedule 2

Omit “(2) to (4)”, substitute “(2) to (5)”.

4  At the end of clause 790.223 of Schedule 2

Add:

 (5) The applicant:

 (a) is an unauthorised maritime arrival; and

 (b) holds or has held a Subclass 785 (Temporary Protection) visa or a Subclass 790 (Safe Haven Enterprise) visa; and

 (c) at the time the visa was granted, satisfied any of the following:

 (i) subclause 785.223(3);

 (ii) subclause 785.223(5);

 (iii) subclause (3) of this clause;

 (iv) this subclause.

5  In the appropriate position in Schedule 13

Insert:

Part 82—Amendments made by the Migration Amendment (Chest X‑ray Requirements) Regulations 2019

8201  Operation of Schedule 1

  The amendments of these Regulations made by Schedule 1 to the Migration Amendment (Chest X‑ray Requirements) Regulations 2019 apply in relation to:

 (a) applications for Subclass 785 (Temporary Protection) visas or Subclass 790 (Safe Haven Enterprise) visas made, but not finally determined, before 2 March 2019; and

 (b) applications for Subclass 785 (Temporary Protection) visas or Subclass 790 (Safe Haven Enterprise) visas made on or after 2 March 2019.