Commonwealth Numbered Acts

MIGRATION (MISCELLANEOUS AMENDMENTS) ACT 1983 No. 84, 1983 - SECT 20

20. Subject to the Principal Act as amended by this Act-

   (a)  a person who, immediately before the commencement of this section, was
        an immigrant child within the meaning of the Principal Act becomes,
        upon that commencement, a non-citizen child within the meaning of the
        Principal Act as amended by this Act;

   (b)  a reference in any regulations or other instrument made for the
        purposes of the Principal Act to an immigrant child, except in
        relation to matters that occurred before the commencement of this
        section, be read as a reference to a non-citizen child; and

   (c)  any action taken under section 7 of the Principal Act in relation to a
        child shall, after the commencement of this section, have effect as if
        it had been taken under section 7 of the Principal Act as amended by
        this Act.