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• Migration Amendment (Maintaining the Good Order of Immigration Detention Facilities) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Feb 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Border Protection 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Migration Act 1958

  to provide a framework for the use of reasonable force in specified circumstances by authorised officers within immigration detention facilities; and establish a complaints mechanism relating to the exercise of power to use reasonable force. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration and Maritime Powers Legislation Amendment (Resolving the Asylum Legacy Caseload) Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Sep 2014 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Border Protection 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Maritime Powers Act 2013

  to: provide clarity and consistency in relation to powers to detain and move vessels and people; clarify the relationship between the Act and other laws; and provide for the minister to give directions about the exercise of maritime powers;

  Migration Act 1958

  to: introduce temporary protection for those who engage Australia’s non-refoulement obligations and who arrive in Australia illegally; create the authority to make deeming regulations; create the Safe Haven Enterprise Visa class; introduce a fast track assessment process and remove access to the Refugee Review Tribunal (RRT); establish the Immigration Assessment Authority within the RRT to consider fast track reviewable decisions; clarify the availability of removal powers independent of assessments of Australia’s non-refoulement obligations; codify Australia’s interpretation of its protection obligations under the Refugees Convention; clarify the legal status of children of unauthorised maritime arrivals and transitory persons; and enable the minister to place a statutory limit on the number of protection visas granted; and

  Maritime Powers Act 2013

  ,

  Migration Act 1958

  ,

  Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act 1997

  ,

  Immigration (Guardianship of Children) Act 1946

  and Migration Regulations 1994 to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Amendment (Character and General Visa Cancellation) Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Sep 2014 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Border Protection 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Migration Act 1958

  to enable a visa to be cancelled or refused for certain non-citizens by: broadening the power to refuse to grant or to cancel a visa on character grounds; allowing the minister to require a state or territory agency to disclose personal information relevant to the character test; providing for lower thresholds for cancelling temporary visas; strengthening ministerial decision making powers in relation to general visa cancellation provisions; and introducing a mandatory visa cancellation for certain non-citizens who do not pass the character test. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Amendment (Protection and Other Measures) Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Jun 2014 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Border Protection 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Migration Act 1958

  to: clarify the responsibilities of asylum seekers to provide and substantiate claims in relation to protection visas; enable the Refugee Review Tribunal to draw an unfavourable inference about the credibility of claims or evidence raised by a protection visa applicant for the first time at the review stage; create grounds to refuse a protection visa application when an applicant refuses or fails to establish their identity, nationality or citizenship; provide that a protection visa will not be granted to a family applicant unless the visa was applied for before the family visa holder was granted their visa; define the risk threshold for assessing Australia’s non-refoulement obligations under certain treaties; amend the framework in relation to unauthorised maritime arrivals and transitory persons who can make a valid application for a visa; provide for changes to the processes and administration of the Migration Review Tribunal and the Refugee Review Tribunal; and clarify when a review of a decision in relation to an application is ‘finally determined’. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Amendment (Offshore Resources Activity) Repeal Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Mar 2014 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Border Protection 

  Summary

  Repeals the

  Migration Amendment (Offshore Resources Activity) Act 2013

  to remove the requirement for foreign workers to hold a visa when they participate in, or support, offshore resource activities taken to be in the migration zone. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Mar 2014 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Border Protection 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Migration Act 1958

  to: clarify the limitations or prohibitions on valid applications by persons who have been refused a visa or who held a visa that was cancelled; ensure that a bridging visa application is not an impediment to removal; apply debt recovery provisions to all convicted people smugglers and illegal foreign fishers; clarify the obligation of the Migration Review Tribunal and the Refugee Review Tribunal to provide documents to an authorised recipient; clarify the role of an authorised recipient and the extent of the obligation to notify an authorised recipient of direct communications made with the person who authorised them; clarify the procedural fairness provisions relating to giving of certain information to a visa applicant; and remove redundant references; and

  Australian Citizenship Act 2007

  and

  Migration Act 1958

  to provide access to, and use of, material and information obtained under certain search warrants. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Amendment Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Dec 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Border Protection 

  Summary

  Addresses recent court and tribunal decisions by amending the

  Migration Act 1958

  to: clarify that a decision on review, or a visa refusal, cancellation or revocation decision made by the minister or his delegate, is taken to be made on the day and at the time when a record of it is made; clarify that a person in the migration zone who has previously been refused a protection visa, or who held a protection visa that was cancelled, is prohibited from applying for a further protection visa; and make it a criterion for the grant of a protection visa that the applicant is not assessed by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation to be a risk to security. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Amendment (Regaining Control Over Australia’s Protection Obligations) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Dec 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Border Protection 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Migration Act 1958

  to: remove the criterion for the grant of a protection visa on the basis of complementary protection grounds; and make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Amendment (Temporary Sponsored Visas) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Jun 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Citizenship 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Migration Act 1958

  to: require the minister to establish the Ministerial Advisory Council on Skilled Migration to provide advice in relation to the temporary sponsored work visa program; require sponsors participating in the temporary sponsored work visa program to undertake labour market testing in relation to nominated occupations; provide that labour market testing is undertaken after redundancies and retrenchments have occurred; provide for enforceable undertakings between the minister and approved sponsors in relation to sponsorship; and enable Fair Work inspectors to monitor sponsorship compliance;

  Migration Act 1958

  and Migration Regulations 1994 to set out the requirements to be met by approved sponsors when undertaking labour market testing; and Migration Regulations 1994 to extend the period in which certain visa holders can seek new sponsored employment. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Amendment (Offshore Resources Activity) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 May 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Citizenship 

  Summary

  Implements recommendations of the Migration Maritime Taskforce by amending the

  Migration Act 1958

  to provide that foreign workers who participate in, or support, offshore resources activities are taken to be in the migration zone and are required to hold a visa. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum