Bill
Migration Amendment (Complementary Protection and Other Measures) Bill 2015
lapsed, as at 2016-04-17. Immigration and Border Protection portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Immigration and Border Protection
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2015-10-14
- second reading — 2015-10-14
- second reading — 2016-02-02
- second reading — 2016-02-02
- third reading — 2016-02-02
- introduced — 2016-02-03
- second reading — 2016-02-03
- other — 2016-04-17
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2015-10-14.
The bill would change how Australia assesses protection claims from people who are not refugees but cannot be sent home due to risk of serious harm.
It would align the rules for these complementary protection cases with the existing refugee framework, and clarify several definitions and procedures in the Migration Act.
The changes would apply to decisions about protection visas, including those involving character grounds and information sharing with foreign countries, but the explanatory memorandum does not specify a start date.
- Align complementary protection standards with those in the refugee framework.
- Clarify the definition of 'protection obligations' and 'country' in the Migration Act.
- Remove duplication in provisions excluding applicants on character grounds.
- Extend disclosure rules for identifying information to certain maritime arrivals.
- Allow the Minister to make non-reviewable decisions on character-related complementary protection refusals.
- Apply exclusion from Australia to persons refused protection visas on complementary protection character grounds.
People seeking protection in Australia on complementary protection grounds, and the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection.
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