Migration Legislation Amendment Act (No. 1) 1999 (Cth)

Migration Legislation Amendment Act (No. 1) 1999

No. 89, 1999

An Act to amend the Migration Act 1958, and for related purposes

Contents 1 Short title................................... 2 Commencement............................... 3 Schedule(s)..................................

Schedule 1—Amendment of the Migration Act 1958

Schedule 2—Consequential amendments of the Telecommunications (Interception) Act 1979

Schedule 3—Transitional

Migration Legislation Amendment Act (No. 1) 1999

No. 89, 1999

An Act to amend the Migration Act 1958, and for related purposes

[Assented to 16 July 1999]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1 Short title

This Act may be cited as the Migration Legislation Amendment Act (No. 1) 1999.

2 Commencement

(1) Sections 1, 2 and 3 commence on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent.

(2) Items 1, 2, 4 and 10 of Schedule 1, and Schedule 3, are taken to have commenced on 3 December 1998.

(3) Item 3 of Schedule 1 commences, or is taken to have commenced, immediately after the commencement of item 2 of Schedule 1 to the Human Rights Legislation Amendment Act (No. 2) 1999.

(4) Subject to subsection (5), the remaining items of Schedule 1, and Schedule 2, commence on a day to be fixed by Proclamation.

(5) If the items of Schedule 1 referred to in subsection (4), and Schedule 2, do not commence under that subsection within the period of 6 months beginning on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent, they commence on the first day after the end of that period.

3 Schedule(s)

Subject to section 2, each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.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