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• Migration Legislation Amendment (Provisions Relating to Character and Conduct) Bill 2006 [2008]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Aug 2006 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  BARTLETT, Andrew 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Migration Act 1958

  in relation to ministerial discretion to assess the character or conduct of a non-citizen for the purposes of refusing a visa application or cancelling an existing visa. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Legislation Amendment (Protected Information) Bill 2003

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Dec 2002 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Migration Act 1958

  to provide increased protection to confidential information given to the Minister for the purposes of making decisions to refuse a visa application or to cancel an existing visa on the basis of the character or conduct of a non-citizen, by extending the statutory protection scheme in section 503A of the Act to the Federal Court of Australia and the Federal Magistrates Court. Also makes consequential amendments to the

  Freedom of Information Act 1982

  and contains application provisions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Legislation Amendment (Procedural Fairness) Bill 2002

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Mar 2002 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Migration Act 1958

  to: provide clear legislative intention that compliance with codes of procedure (for making decisions about visa applications, certain visa cancellations and revocations of visa cancellations, and for the conduct of reviews by relevant merits review tribunals) fully satisfies the common law requirements of the natural justice hearing rule. Also contains application provisions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Legislation Amendment (Procedural Fairness) Bill 2001

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Sep 2001 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Multicultural Affairs portfolio 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Legislation Amendment (Parents and Other Measures) Bill 2000

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  07 Jun 2000 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Multicultural Affairs portfolio 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Legislation Amendment (Overseas Students) Bill 2000

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 Aug 2000 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Multicultural Affairs portfolio 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Legislation Amendment (Migration Zone Excision Repeal) Bill 2006 [2008]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  15 Jun 2006 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  BARTLETT, Andrew 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Migration Legislation Amendment (Migration Zone Excision Repeal) (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2006, the bill amends the

  Migration Act 1958

  to repeal provisions which provide for the excision from the migration zone of certain offshore places and prevent a person who arrives unlawfully at an ‘excised offshore place’ from making a valid visa application unless the minister determines it is in the public interest to do so. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Legislation Amendment (Migration Zone Excision Repeal) (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2006 [2008]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  15 Jun 2006 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  BARTLETT, Andrew 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Migration Legislation Amendment (Migration Zone Excision Repeal) Bill 2006, the bill makes consequential amendments to the

  Migration Act 1958

  in relation to the repeal of the excision from the migration zone of certain offshore places. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Legislation Amendment (Migration Agents) Bill 2002

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Feb 2002 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the regulatory scheme for the migration advice industry and migration agents in the

  Migration Act 1958

  , in relation to investigation of complaints, re-registration and the scope of the scheme. Also contains application provisions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Legislation Amendment (Migration Agents) Bill 2000

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 Nov 2000 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Multicultural Affairs portfolio 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum