2004-2005-2006

The Parliament of the

Commonwealth of Australia

THE SENATE

Presented and read a first time

Migration Legislation Amendment (End of Mandatory Detention) Bill 2006

No.      , 2006

(Senator Bartlett)

A Bill for an Act to end the mandatory detention of visa applicants and asylum seekers, and for related purposes

 

Contents

 

A Bill for an Act to end the mandatory detention of visa applicants and asylum seekers, and for related purposes

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1  Short title

This Act may be cited as the Migration Legislation Amendment (End of Mandatory Detention) Act 2006.

2  Commencement

This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

3  Schedule(s)

Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

 

Schedule 1--Amendment of the Migration Act 1958

1  After section 189

Insert:

189A  Conditions of arrest

(1) An officer who has detained a person under section 189 must, as soon as practicable, take the person before a magistrate for a hearing and action in accordance with subsection (2).

(2) If the magistrate is satisfied that the person is a person to whom section 189 applies, and that his or her continued detention is, in all the circumstances, appropriate, the magistrate may issue a warrant:

(a) authorising the officer to convey the person to a detention centre established under this Act; and

(b) directing that the person, having been conveyed to that place in accordance with the warrant, be detained there until:

(i) the person is released from detention pursuant to paragraph 196(1)(c); or

(ii) a date specified in the warrant.

(3) To avoid doubt, section 189 does not apply to a person once he or she has been released from detention under this section.

2  Subsection 196(3)

Repeal the subsection.

Schedule 1  Amendment of the Migration Act 1958

 

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