Migration Amendment (Status of Forces Agreement—Fiji and Timor‑Leste) Regulations 2023
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 16 February 2023
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 relating to Fiji
Migration Regulations 1994
Schedule 2—Amendments relating to Timor‑Leste
Migration Regulations 1994
This instrument is the Migration Amendment (Status of Forces Agreement—Fiji and Timor-Leste) Regulations 2023.
(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.
Commencement information | ||
Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
Provisions | Commencement | Date/Details |
1. Sections 1 to 4 and anything in this instrument not elsewhere covered by this table | The day after this instrument is registered. | 21 February 2023 |
2. Schedule 1 | The later of: (a) the day after this instrument is registered; and (b) the day the Agreement between Australia and the Republic of Fiji on Cooperation in the Field of Defence and the Status of Visiting Forces, done at Nadi on 20 October 2022, comes into force for Australia. However, the provisions do not commence at all if the event mentioned in paragraph (b) does not occur within the period of 18 months beginning on the day this instrument is registered. |
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3. Schedule 2 | The later of: (a) the day after this instrument is registered; and (b) the day the Agreement between Australia and the Democratic Republic of Timor‑Leste on Cooperation in the Field of Defence and the Status of Visiting Forces, done at Canberra on 7 September 2022, comes into force for Australia. However, the provisions do not commence at all if the event mentioned in paragraph (b) does not occur within the period of 18 months beginning on the day this instrument is registered. |
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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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.
This instrument is made under the Migration Act 1958.
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 relating to Fiji
1 Regulation 1.03 (paragraph (a) of the definition of SOFA forces civilian component member)
After “Australia and”, insert “Fiji,”.
2 Regulation 1.03 (paragraph (a) of the definition of SOFA forces member)
After “Australia and”, insert “Fiji,”.
Schedule 2—Amendments relating to Timor‑Leste
1 Regulation 1.03 (paragraph (a) of the definition of SOFA forces civilian component member)
After “Singapore,”, insert “Timor‑Leste,”.
2 Regulation 1.03 (paragraph (a) of the definition of SOFA forces member)
After “Singapore,”, insert “Timor‑Leste,”.