Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

FAMILY LAW (BILATERAL ARRANGEMENTS--INTERCOUNTRY ADOPTION) (REPEALS AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS) REGULATIONS 2023 (F2023L00308) - REG 4

                   Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1 -- Repeals and amendments

Part 1 -- Repeals

Family Law (Bilateral Arrangements--Intercountry Adoption) Regulations 1998

1  The whole of the instrument

Repeal the instrument.

Part 2 -- Amendments

Australian Citizenship Regulation 2016

2  Subsection 6A(1)

Omit " Family Law (Bilateral Arrangements--Intercountry Adoption) Regulations 1998 ", substitute " Family Law (Bilateral Arrangements--Intercountry Adoption) Regulations 2023 ".

Migration Regulations 1994

3  Regulation 1.03 (definitions of adoption compliance certificate and bilateral adoption arrangement )

Omit " Family Law (Bilateral Arrangements--Intercountry Adoption) Regulations 1998 ", substitute " Family Law (Bilateral Arrangements--Intercountry Adoption) Regulations 2023 ".

4  Regulation 1.03 (subparagraph (a)(ii) of the definition of competent authority )

Omit "the Family Law (Bilateral Arrangements--Intercountry Adoption) Regulations 1998 ", substitute "paragraph (b) of the definition of competent authority in subsection 4(1) of the Family Law (Bilateral Arrangements--Intercountry Adoption) Regulations 2023 ".

5  Regulation 1.03 (paragraph (c) of the definition of competent authority )

Repeal the paragraph, substitute:

                     (c)  for an overseas jurisdiction that is declared under section 5 of the Family Law (Bilateral Arrangements--Intercountry Adoption) Regulations 2023 to be a prescribed overseas jurisdiction for the purposes of that instrument--a person, body or office in the prescribed overseas jurisdiction responsible for approving the adoption of children; and

6  Subparagraph 102.211(4)(d)(ii) of Schedule 2

Omit " regulation 5 of the Family Law (Bilateral Arrangements--Intercountry Adoption) Regulations 1998 ", substitute "section 7 of the Family Law (Bilateral Arrangements--Intercountry Adoption) Regulations 2023 ".