Migration Amendment (Bridging Visas) Regulations 2024

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  11 April 2024

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 (Bridging Visas) Regulations 2024.

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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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  Regulation 2.04

Omit “the Act,”, substitute “the Act and subject to other provisions of these Regulations,”.

2  Subregulation 2.25AB(1)

Repeal the subregulation, substitute:

 (1) This regulation applies to a non‑citizen who is an eligible non‑citizen under subregulation 2.20(18).

3  Subregulation 2.25AB(2)

Omit “the non‑citizen continues to hold a Bridging R (Class WR) visa”, substitute “the non‑citizen does not hold a substantive visa, a criminal justice visa or an enforcement visa”.

4  In the appropriate position in Schedule 13

Insert:

Part 130—Amendments made by the Migration Amendment (Bridging Visas) Regulations 2024

13001  Operation of amendments

  Regulation 2.25AB, as amended by Schedule 1 to the Migration Amendment (Bridging Visas) Regulations 2024, applies in relation to the grant of a visa on or after the commencement of that Schedule.