STATUTORY RULES

1965 No. 129

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ALIENS ACT 1947-1965.*

I, THE ADMINISTRATOR of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Aliens Act 1947-1965.

Dated this twenty-sixth day of August, 1965.

HENRY ABEL SMITH

Administrator.

By His Excellency’s Command,

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Minister of State for Immigration.

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Amendments of the Aliens Regulations.†

Register of Aliees

1. Regulation 4 of the Aliens Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (1.) the words “Commonwealth Migration Officer” and inserting in their stead the words “Commonwealth Director of Migration”.

2. Regulation 9 of the Aliens Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Annual notification of address, occupation and marital status

“9.—(1.) For the purposes of section 9 of the Act—

(a) the prescribed day in any year is the thirty-first day of August; and

(b) the prescribed person is—

(i) in the case of an alien whose place of residence is in a State or the Northern Territory of Australia—the Commonwealth Director of Migration in the State or the Northern Territory of Australia, as the case may be; or

(ii) in the case of an alien whose place of residence is in the Australian Capital Territory—the Secretary to the Department of Immigration.

“(2.) A notification under sub-section (1.) of section 9 of the Act shall be in writing and shall be signed by the person giving it.”.

Appropriate officer for purposes of regulations 10 and 11

3. Regulation 12 of the Aliens Regulations is amended by omitting from paragraph (b) the words “Commonwealth Migration Officer” and inserting in their stead the words “Commonwealth Director of Migration”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 31 August, 1965.

† Statutory Rules 1954, No. 114 as amended by Statutory Rules 1956, No. 118; 1959 No. 71; and 1961, No. 57.

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4. Regulation 13 of the Aliens Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Notification of change in recorded particulars

“13.—(1.) Subject to the next succeeding sub-regulation, when a change occurs in any of the particulars recorded in an alien’s application for registration other than a change for the notification of which specific provision is made in the Act or elsewhere in these Regulations, the alien shall, within fourteen days after the change occurs, give notice of the change to—

(a) in the case of an alien whose place of residence is in a State or the Northern Territory of Australia—the Commonwealth Director of Migration in the State or the Northern Territory of Australia, as the case may be; or

(b) in the case of an alien whose place of residence is in the Australian Capital Territory—the Secretary to the Department of Immigration.

Penalty: Fifty pounds or imprisonment for three months.

“(2.) The last preceding sub-regulation does not apply to a change in the address of the place of residence, the occupation or the employment of an alien.”.

Repeal

5. Regulation 20 of the Aliens Regulations is repealed.

 

By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.