Australian Citizenship Amendment (Translation Requirements for Applications) Regulations 2022

I, General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated   15 December 2022

David Hurley

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Andrew Giles

Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Part 1—Amendments

Australian Citizenship Regulation 2016

Part 2—Application of amendments

Australian Citizenship Regulation 2016

1  Name

  This instrument is the Australian Citizenship Amendment (Translation Requirements for Applications) Regulations 2022.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under the Australian Citizenship Act 2007.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Part 1—Amendments

Australian Citizenship Regulation 2016

1  Section 14

Repeal the section.

Part 2—Application of amendments

Australian Citizenship Regulation 2016

2  At the end of Part 4

Add:

32  Application of amendment made by Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Australian Citizenship Amendment (Translation Requirements for Applications) Regulations 2022

 (1) The repeal of section 14 by Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Australian Citizenship Amendment (Translation Requirements for Applications) Regulations 2022 applies in relation to an application made before the commencement of that Part if:

 (a) a decision on the application had not been made before that commencement; or

 (b) a decision on the application had been made before that commencement and one of the following applies:

 (i) as at that commencement, the time for making an application for review of the decision under section 52 of the Act has not ended;

 (ii) as at that commencement, the decision is subject to a review under section 52 of the Act that has not been completed;

 (iii) before that commencement, the decision was remitted to the Minister following a review under section 52 of the Act, and the Minister has not, as at that commencement, reconsidered the decision.

 (2) The repeal of section 14 by Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Australian Citizenship Amendment (Translation Requirements for Applications) Regulations 2022 also applies in relation to an application made on or after the commencement of that Part.