Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

MIGRATION ACT 1958 - SECT 75

  (1)   If:

  (a)   an eligible non - citizen who is in immigration detention makes an application for a bridging visa of a prescribed class; and

  (b)   the Minister does not make a decision, within the prescribed period, to grant or refuse to grant the bridging visa;

the non - citizen is taken to have been granted a bridging visa of the prescribed class on prescribed conditions (if any) at the end of that period.

  (2)   The period in subsection   (1) may be extended in relation to a particular application by agreement between the applicant and the Minister.