Migration (Fast Track Applicant Class – Temporary Protection and Safe Haven Enterprise Visa Holders) Instrument 2019
I, David Coleman, Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs, make the following instrument.
Dated 26/3/19
David Coleman
The David Coleman MP
Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs
Contents
Part 1 – Preliminary................................1
1 Name 1
2 Commencement.....................................................1
3 Authority.........................................................1
4 Definitions........................................................1
5 Purpose 1
Part 2 – Fast track applicants..........................2
6 Person who is a fast track applicant..........................................2
Part 1 – Preliminary
(1) This instrument is the Migration (Fast Track Applicant Class – Temporary Protection and Safe Haven Enterprise Visas) Instrument 2019.
(2) This instrument may also be cited as LIN 19/007.
This instrument commences on 2 April 2019.
This instrument is made under paragraph 5(1AA)(b) of the Migration Act 1958.
(1) This instrument is made for the purpose of paragraph (b) of the definition of fast track applicant in subsection 5(1) of the Act.
(2) This instrument specifies a class of persons who are fast track applicants.
A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in the Act, including the following:
(a) child; and
(b) fast track applicant;
(c) finally determined;
(d) protection visa.
In this instrument:
Act means the Migration Act 1958
Regulations means the Migration Regulations 1994.
Part 2 – Fast track applicants
(1) A person is a fast track applicant if:
(a) either:
(i) the person holds a Subclass 785 (Temporary Protection) visa or a Subclass 790 (Safe Haven Enterprise) visa; or
(ii) the last substantive visa held by the person was a Subclass 785 (Temporary Protection) visa or a Subclass 790 (Safe Haven Enterprise) visa; and
(b) the person makes an application, on or after 2 April 2019, for a protection visa.
(2) A person is a fast track applicant if the person makes, or is taken to have made, a valid application for a protection visa that is combined with the application mentioned in paragraph (1)(b).
(3) A person is a fast track applicant if the person:
(a) is the child of a person to whom subsection (1) applied; and
(b) is born after the protection visa application mentioned in paragraph (1)(b) has been finally determined; and
(c) makes an application in Australia for a protection visa.