Migration Amendment (Biosecurity Contravention) 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     26 October 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

Migration Regulations 1994

1  Name

  This instrument is the Migration Amendment (Biosecurity Contravention) 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.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 1—Amendments

Migration Regulations 1994

1  Paragraph 2.43(1)(s)

After “128(2),”, insert “186A(1),”.

2  In the appropriate position in Schedule 13

Insert:

Part 120—Amendment made by the Migration Amendment (Biosecurity Contravention) Regulations 2023

12001  Operation of amendment

  The amendment made by Schedule 1 to the Migration Amendment (Biosecurity Contravention) Regulations 2023 applies in relation to the cancellation of a visa if:

 (a) the visa was granted before, on or after the commencement of that Schedule; and

 (b) the contravention occurs on or after that commencement.