Migration Legislation Amendment (Regional Processing Cohort) Bill 2016

Type: Government
Portfolio: Immigration and Border Protection
Originating house: House of Representatives
Status: Not Proceeding
Parliament no: 45

Summary

Amends the Migration Act 1958 and Migration Regulations 1994 to: prevent unauthorised maritime arrivals or transitory persons (referred to as members of the designated regional processing cohort) who were at least 18 years of age and were taken to a regional processing country after 19 July 2013 from making a valid application for an Australian visa; enable the minister to permit a member of the designated regional processing cohort, or a class of persons within the designated regional processing cohort, to make a valid application for a visa if the minister thinks it is in the public interest to do so; and prevent a member of the designated regional processing cohort from being deemed to have been granted a special purpose visa or being deemed to have applied for particular visas under the Migration Regulations 1994.

Progress

House of Representatives
Introduced and read a first time	08 Nov 2016
Second reading moved	08 Nov 2016
Second reading debate	09 Nov 2016
Second reading debate	09 Nov 2016
Second reading debate	10 Nov 2016
Second reading agreed to	10 Nov 2016
Third reading agreed to	10 Nov 2016

Senate
Introduced and read a first time	10 Nov 2016
Second reading moved	10 Nov 2016
Lapsed at end of Parliament	01 Jul 2019

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[sheet 1023]
KENEALLY, Sen Kristina

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Notes

Referred to Committee (10/11/2016): Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee; Committee report (22/11/2016); Corrigendum to report (14/12/2016)
Considered by scrutiny committee (22/11/2016): Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights; Report 2 of 2017
Considered by scrutiny committee (23/11/2016): Senate Standing Committee for the Scrutiny of Bills; Scrutiny Digest 1 of 2017

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