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Migration Amendment (Status of Forces Agreement—Fiji and TimorLeste) Regulations 2023

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

Dated  16 February 2023

David Hurley

GovernorGeneral

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 TimorLeste

Migration Regulations 1994

1  Name

  This instrument is the Migration Amendment (Status of Forces Agreement—Fiji and Timor-Leste) Regulations 2023.

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.

 

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.

 

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 TimorLeste 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.

 

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 Migration Act 1958.

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 1Amendments relating to Fiji

 

Migration Regulations 1994

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 2Amendments relating to TimorLeste

 

Migration Regulations 1994

1  Regulation 1.03 (paragraph (a) of the definition of SOFA forces civilian component member)

After “Singapore,”, insert “TimorLeste,”.

2  Regulation 1.03 (paragraph (a) of the definition of SOFA forces member)

After “Singapore,”, insert “TimorLeste,”.