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MIGRATION (REVIEW) (1993) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1993 NO. 232

STATUTORY RULES 1993 No. 232

Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs

Migration Act 1958

Migration (Review) (1993) Regulations (Amendment)

Section 181 of the Migration Act 1958 (the Act) provides for the Governor-General to make regulations, not inconsistent with the Act, prescribing matters required or permitted by the Act to be prescribed. Section 166JA of the Act provides that the Refugee Review Tribunal consists of a Principal Member and such other members (not exceeding the prescribed number) as are appointed in accordance with the Act.

The purpose of the Regulations is to amend regulation 43C of the Migration (Review) (1993) Regulations to prescribe the number of members of the Refugee Review Tribunal (other than the Principal Member) as 100. The effect of this amendment is to raise the prescribed number of members of the Refugee Review Tribunal from 30 to 100. The Refugee Review Tribunal was established on 1 July 1993, and the increase in the prescribed number of its members is necessary to raise it to a fully operational level.

The Regulations commence on gazettal.