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MIGRATION ACT 1958 - SECT 50

Only new information to be considered in later protection visa applications

    If a non - citizen who has made:

  (a)   an application for a protection visa, where the grant of the visa has been refused and the application has been finally determined; or

  (b)   applications for protection visas, where the grants of the visas have been refused and the applications have been finally determined;

makes a further application for a protection visa, the Minister, in considering the further application:

  (c)   is not required to reconsider any information considered in the earlier application or an earlier application; and

  (d)   may have regard to, and take to be correct, any decision that the Minister made about or because of that information.

Note:   Section   48A prevents repeat applications for protection visas in most circumstances where the applicant is in the migration zone.


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