Migration Reform Act 1992 (Cth)

Migration Reform Act 1992

No. 184 of 1992

An Act to reform the law relating to migration

[Assented to 7 December 1992]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

Short title etc.

1.(1) This Act may be cited as the Migration Reform Act 1992.

(2) In this Act, "Principal Act" means the Migration Act 19581.

Commencement

2.(1) Sections 1, 2 and 31 commence on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent.

(2) Sections 6 and 32 commence on 1 July 1993.

(3) The remaining provisions of this Act commence on 1 November 1993.

3. After section 3 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:

Object of Act

"3A.(1) The object of this Act is to regulate, in the national interest, the coming into, and presence in, Australia of non-citizens.

"(2) To advance its object, this Act provides for visas permitting non-citizens to enter or remain in Australia and the Parliament intends that this Act be the only source of the right of non-citizens to so enter or remain.

"(3) To advance its object, this Act requires persons entering Australia to identify themselves so that the Commonwealth government can know who are the non-citizens so entering.

"(4) To advance its object, this Act provides for the removal or deportation from Australia of non-citizens whose presence in Australia is not permitted by this Act.".

Interpretation

4. Section 4 of the Principal Act is amended:

(a) by omitting from subsection (1) the definitions of "accompanying child", "accompanying spouse", "holder", "port", "score" and "visa" and substituting respectively the following definitions:

" 'holder', in relation to a visa, means, subject to section 26ZR (visas only held if in force) the person to whom it was granted or a person included in it;

'port' means:

(a) a proclaimed port; or

(b) a proclaimed airport;