Aliens Act 1973

No. 132 of 1973

AN ACT

To amend the Aliens Act 1947-1966.

[Assented to 13 November 1973]

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, the Senate and the House of Representatives of Australia, as follows:—

Short title and citation.

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Aliens Act 1973.

(2) The Aliens Act 1947-1966 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Aliens Act 1947-1973.

Commencement.

2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

Aliens to register.

3. Section 7 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-sections (3) and (4) the word “twenty-one” and substituting the word “eighteen”.

Making of application for registration before entry into Australia.

4. Section 7a of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-section (2) the word “twenty-one” and substituting the word “eighteen”.

Exemption from registration.

5. Section 8 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-sections (1) and (2) the word “, nine”.

Annual notification of address, occupation and marital status.

6. Section 9 of the Principal Act is repealed.

Offences to be continuing.

7. Section 17 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-section (2) the word “twenty-one” (wherever occurring) and substituting the word “eighteen”; and

(b) by omitting sub-section (3).

Settlement of cases.

8. Section 18 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting the words “,section nine”.

Formal amendments.

9. The Principal Act is further amended as set out in the Schedule.

SCHEDULE Section 9

FORMAL AMENDMENTS

1. The following provisions of the Principal Act are amended by omitting any number expressed in words that is used, whether with or without the addition of a Setter or letters, to identify a section of that Act or of another Act and substituting that number expressed in figures:—

Sections 8(1) and (2), 11(4)(b), 17(2), 18 and 18a(1) and (3).

2. The following provisions of the Principal Act are amended by omitting the words “of this Act” and “of this section” (wherever occurring):—

Sections 8(1) and (2), 11(1), 17(2), 18 and 18a(1).

3. The Principal Act is further amended as set out in the following table:—