House of Representatives

Revised Explanatory Memorandum

(Circulated by authority of the Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs, the Hon. Philip Ruddock MP)

Notes on individual clauses

Clause 1 Short title

1. The short title by which this Act will be known is the Migration Legislation Amendment (Protected Information) Act 2003.

Clause 2 Commencement

2. Subclause 2(1) contains a table and provides that each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, on the day or at the time specified in column 2 of the table.

3. The effect of items 1, 2, 4 and 6 of the table is that the following provisions commence on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent:

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sections 1, 2 and 3; and

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items 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 of Schedule 1 to this Act.

4. The effect of items 3, 5, 7 and 8 of the table is that the following provisions commence on the day after the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent:

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items 5A, 5B, 5C, 5D, 6A and 8 of Schedule 1 to this Act; and

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Schedule 2 to this Act.

5. The note in new subclause 2(1) makes it clear that the table only relates to the provisions of this Act as originally passed by the Parliament and assented to. The table will not be expanded to deal with provisions inserted into this Act after it receives the Royal Assent.

6. New subclause 2(2) provides that column 3 of the table in new subclause 2(1) is for additional information that may be included in any published version of this Act but which is not part of this Act.

Clause 3 Schedule(s)

7. This clause provides that each Act specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned. In addition, any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.