Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

MIGRATION ACT 1958 - SECT 34

  (1)   There is a class of permanent visas to remain in, but not re - enter, Australia, to be known as absorbed person visas.

  (2)   A non - citizen in the migration zone who:

  (a)   on 2   April 1984 was in Australia; and

  (b)   before that date, had ceased to be an immigrant; and

  (c)   on or after that date, has not left Australia, where left Australia has the meaning it had in this Act before 1   September 1994; and

  (d)   immediately before 1   September 1994, was not a person to whom section   20 of this Act as in force then applied;

is taken to have been granted an absorbed person visa on 1   September 1994.

  (3)   Subdivisions AA, AB, AC (other than section   68) and AH do not apply in relation to absorbed person visas.