2013-2014 

 

The Parliament of the 

Commonwealth of Australia 

 

THE SENATE 

 

 

 

 

Presented and read a first time 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Migration Amendment (Humanitarian 

Visa Intake) Bill 2014 

 

No.      , 2014 

 

(Senator Hanson-Young) 

 

 

 

A Bill for an Act to amend the Migration Act 1958 

in relation to the annual humanitarian visa intake, 

and for related purposes 

   

   

 

 

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Contents 

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Short title ........................................................................................... 1

 

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Commencement ................................................................................. 1

 

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Schedule(s) ........................................................................................ 2

 

Schedule 1--Amendments

 

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Migration Act 1958

 

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A Bill for an Act to amend the Migration Act 1958 

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in relation to the annual humanitarian visa intake, 

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and for related purposes 

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The Parliament of Australia enacts: 

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1  Short title 

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  This Act may be cited as the Migration Amendment (Humanitarian 

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Visa Intake) Act 2014. 

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2  Commencement 

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  This Act commences on the day after this Act receives the Royal 

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Assent. 

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  Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or 

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repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule 

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concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect 

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according to its terms. 

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Amendments  Schedule 1 

   

 

 

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Schedule 1

--Amendments 

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Migration Act 1958 

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1  Subsection 5(1) 

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Insert: 

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humanitarian visa means a visa a criterion (or a part of a criterion) 

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for which may be satisfied if a person: 

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(a)  is subject to persecution or discrimination; or 

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(b)  is registered as being of concern to the United Nations High 

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Commissioner for Refugees; or 

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(c)  has been determined to be a refugee under the Refugees 

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Convention as amended by the Refugees Protocol. 

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2  At the end of section 39 

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Add: 

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(3)  This section, and any criteria prescribed for the purposes of this 

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section, do not apply in relation to any class of humanitarian visas 

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at a time in a financial year when fewer than 20,000 humanitarian 

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visas have been granted in that financial year. 

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3  After section 86 

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Insert: 

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86A  Number of humanitarian visas 

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(1)  Section 86 does not prevent the grant of a humanitarian visa at a 

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time in a financial year when fewer than 20,000 humanitarian visas 

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have been granted in that financial year. 

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Quarterly report of number of humanitarian visas granted 

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(2)  Each quarter, the Minister must present to each House of the 

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Parliament a statement setting out the number of each class and 

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subclass of humanitarian visa granted during the previous quarter. 

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(3)  The statement is to be presented to each House of the Parliament 

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within 15 sitting days of that House after the end of the previous 

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quarter. 

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