Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

[Index] [Table] [Search] [Search this Act] [Notes] [Noteup] [Previous] [Next] [Download] [Help]

MIGRATION ACT 1958 - SECT 474

Decisions under Act are final

  (1)   A privative clause decision:

  (a)   is final and conclusive; and

  (b)   must not be challenged, appealed against, reviewed, quashed or called in question in any court; and

  (c)   is not subject to prohibition, mandamus, injunction, declaration or certiorari in any court on any account.

  (2)   In this section:

"privative clause decision" means a decision of an administrative character made, proposed to be made, or required to be made, as the case may be, under this Act or under a regulation or other instrument made under this Act (whether in the exercise of a discretion or not), other than a decision referred to in subsection   (4) or (5).

  (3)   A reference in this section to a decision includes a reference to the following:

  (a)   granting, making, varying, suspending, cancelling, revoking or refusing to make an order or determination;

  (b)   granting, giving, suspending, cancelling, revoking or refusing to give a certificate, direction, approval, consent or permission (including a visa);

  (c)   granting, issuing, suspending, cancelling, revoking or refusing to issue an authority or other instrument;

  (d)   imposing, or refusing to remove, a condition or restriction;

  (e)   making or revoking, or refusing to make or revoke, a declaration, demand or requirement;

  (f)   retaining, or refusing to deliver up, an article;

  (g)   doing or refusing to do any other act or thing;

  (h)   conduct preparatory to the making of a decision, including the taking of evidence or the holding of an inquiry or investigation;

  (i)   a decision on review of a decision, irrespective of whether the decision on review is taken under this Act or a regulation or other instrument under this Act, or under another Act;

  (j)   a failure or refusal to make a decision.

  (4)   For the purposes of subsection   (2), a decision under a provision, or under a regulation or other instrument made under a provision, set out in the following table is not a privative clause decision:

 

Decisions that are not privative clause decisions

Item

Provision

Subject matter of provision

1A

section   140RB

Compliance notices for failing to satisfy sponsorship obligations

1

section   213

Liability for the costs of removal or deportation

2

section   217

Conveyance of removees

3

section   218

Conveyance of deportees etc.

4

section   222

Orders restraining non - citizens from disposing of property

5

section   223

Valuables of detained non - citizens

6

section   224

Dealing with seized valuables

6A

section   245AYP

Compliance notices for work - related breaches

7

section   252

Searches of persons

8

section   259

Detention of vessels for search

9

section   260

Detention of vessels/dealing with detained vessels

10

section   261

Disposal of certain vessels

11

Division   14 of Part   2

Recovery of costs

12

section   269

Taking of securities

13

section   272

Migrant centres

14

section   273

Detention centres

15

Part   3

Migration agents registration scheme

16

Part   4

Court orders about reparation

23

Division   7 of Part   5

Part - 5 reviewable decisions: offences

28

Division   6 of Part   7

Part - 7 reviewable decisions: offences

31

regulation   5.35

Medical treatment of persons in detention

  (5)   The regulations may specify that a decision, or a decision included in a class of decisions, under this Act, or under regulations or another instrument under this Act, is not a privative clause decision.

  (6)   A decision mentioned in subsection   474(4), or specified (whether by reference to a particular decision or a class of decisions) in regulations made under subsection   474(5), is a non - privative clause decision .

  (7)   To avoid doubt, the following decisions are privative clause decisions within the meaning of subsection   474(2):

  (a)   a decision of the Minister not to exercise, or not to consider the exercise, of the Minister's power under subsection   37A(2) or (3), section   48B, paragraph   72(1)(c), section   91F, 91L, 91Q, 195A, 197AB, 197AD, 198AE, 351 or 417 or subsection   503A(3);

  (d)   a decision of the Minister under Division   13A of Part   2 to order that a thing is not to be condemned as forfeited.

Note:   Section   91Q was repealed by the Migration Amendment (Giving Documents and Other Measures) Act 2023 .



AustLII: Copyright Policy | Disclaimers | Privacy Policy | Feedback