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• Migration Legislation Amendment (Migration Agents Integrity Measures) Bill 2004

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  17 Sep 2003 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Migration Act 1958

  to strengthen and improve the regulation of migration agents; and make minor technical and consequential amendments. Also contains application and transitional provisions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Legislation Amendment (Identification and Authentication) Bill 2004

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Jun 2003 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Migration Act 1958

  to provide a legislative framework for the collection of personal identifiers, such as fingerprints and handprints, photographs, physical measurements, audio and video recordings, signatures, iris scans and any other identifiers prescribed in regulations, from certain non-citizens at key points in the immigration process. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Amendment (Duration of Detention) Bill 2003

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Jun 2003 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Migration Act 1958

  to clarify that an unlawful non-citizen must be kept in immigration detention unless a court finally determines that the detention is unlawful or that the detainee is not an unlawful non-citizen. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Legislation Amendment (Sponsorship Measures) Bill 2003

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Jun 2003 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Migration Act 1958

  to: provide a framework for the Migration Regulations to prescribe requirements relating to sponsorship; and prevent abuse of the merits review process by certain temporary visa applicants who fail to meet the sponsorship requirements of their visa. Also contains an application provision. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Legislation Amendment (Protected Information) Bill 2003

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Dec 2002 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Migration Act 1958

  to provide increased protection to confidential information given to the Minister for the purposes of making decisions to refuse a visa application or to cancel an existing visa on the basis of the character or conduct of a non-citizen, by extending the statutory protection scheme in section 503A of the Act to the Federal Court of Australia and the Federal Magistrates Court. Also makes consequential amendments to the

  Freedom of Information Act 1982

  and contains application provisions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration (Visa Application) Charge Amendment Bill 2003

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  05 Dec 2002 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Migration Legislation Amendment (Contributory Parents Migration Scheme) Bill 2002, the bill amends the

  Migration (Visa Application) Charge Act 1997

  to provide for: a visa application charge limit of $26 745 in relation to certain visa applications made during the 2002-2003 financial year; and indexation of the new visa application charge limit. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Legislation Amendment (Contributory Parents Migration Scheme) Bill 2003

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  05 Dec 2002 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Migration (Visa Application) Charge Amendment Bill 2002, the bill amends the

  Migration Act 1958

  to make minor technical amendments in relation to the visa application charge limit; and Migration Regulations 1994 to: establish new parent visa classes and subclasses, both offshore and onshore; increase the assurance of support bond and period of effect in relation to applicants for the new parent visa classes; and offset the health costs of parent entry by requiring applicants for the new visa classes to pay an additional application charge. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Legislation Amendment (Migration Advice Industry) Bill 2003

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  16 Oct 2002 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Migration Act 1958

  to repeal the sunset clause (due to take effect on 21 March 2003) to enable the continuation of the current statutory self-regulatory arrangements in relation to the migration advice industry. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment Bill 2002

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  19 Sep 2002 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976

  to add five parcels of land, one described as Harry Creek East and the remainder collectively described as Upper Daly to Schedule 1 of the Act. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Amendment Bill 2002

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Mar 2002 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Act 1989

  in relation to: appointment, terms of office and eligibility for election of certain statutory office holders of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC); consistency of terminology and practice with the Commonwealth Accrual-Based Outcomes and Outputs Framework; clarification and enhancement of ATSIC’s internal review process; and access to appeal and review processes through the Administrative Review Tribunal. Also contains transitional provisions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum