Migration Amendment (Immigration Clearance Exemption for Transiting Aircraft Crew) Regulations 2024

I, the Honourable Sam Mostyn AC, Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated    10 October 2024

Sam Mostyn AC

Governor‑General

By Her Excellency’s Command

Tony Burke

Minister for Immigration 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 (Immigration Clearance Exemption for Transiting Aircraft Crew) 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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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  At the end of Part 2 of Schedule 9

Add:

13  A person who:

 (a) is employed or engaged by an international air carrier as an aircrew member; and

 (b) enters Australia in the course of the person’s employment or engagement as an aircrew member of an international passenger aircraft; and

 (c) will depart Australia in the course of the person’s employment or engagement as an aircrew member of the aircraft within 90 minutes of the person’s entry into Australia; and

 (d) does not leave the airport transit lounge except to continue the person’s journey.

2  In the appropriate position in Schedule 13

Insert:

Part 133—Amendments made by the Migration Amendment (Immigration Clearance Exemption for Transiting Aircraft Crew) Regulations 2024

13301  Operation of amendment

  The amendment made by Schedule 1 to the Migration Amendment (Immigration Clearance Exemption for Transiting Aircraft Crew) Regulations 2024 applies in relation to a person who departs Australia on or after the commencement of that Schedule (regardless of when the person enters Australia).