Bill
Migration Legislation Amendment (Regional Processing Cohort) Bill 2019
lapsed, as at 2022-04-11. Home Affairs portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Home Affairs
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2019-07-04
- second reading — 2019-07-04
- other — 2022-04-11
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 2019-07-04.
This bill would ban certain people who arrived by sea without permission and were sent to another country for processing from applying for an Australian visa.
The minister could allow an individual or group in that situation to apply for a visa if doing so is in the public interest.
The ban would apply to people who were 18 or older when sent to a regional processing country after July 2013, including those who have left that country.
- Prevents certain unauthorised maritime arrivals from lodging a valid visa application.
- Creates a ministerial power to lift the ban for individuals or groups when in the public interest.
- Removes automatic visa grants or application rights for those people under the Migration Act and Regulations.
Unauthorised maritime arrivals and transitory persons who were at least 18 years old and sent to a regional processing country after 19 July 2013.
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