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Migration Amendment (Family Violence and Other Measures) Bill 2016

Type
Government
Originating house
House of Representatives
Status
Act
Portfolio
Immigration and Border Protection

Summary

Amends the Migration Act 1958 to establish a sponsorship framework for the sponsored family visa program to: separate sponsorship assessment from the visa application process for family sponsored visas; require the approval of persons as family sponsors before any relevant visa applications are made; impose statutory obligations on persons who are or were approved as family sponsors and provide for sanctions if those obligations are not satisfied; facilitate the sharing of personal information between parties identified in a sponsorship application; enable the refusal of a sponsorship application and the cancellation or barring of a family sponsor in certain circumstances; enable the regulations to prescribe details for, and in relation to, the operation of the sponsorship framework; and make consequential amendments.

Progress of bill

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House of Representatives
Introduced and read a first time 01/09/16  
Second reading moved 01/09/16  
Second reading debate 10/10/16  
Second reading agreed to 10/10/16  
Third reading agreed to 10/10/16  
     
Senate
Introduced and read a first time 10/10/16  
Second reading moved 10/10/16  
Second reading debate 16/10/17  
Second reading debate 27/11/18  
Committee of the Whole debate 27/11/18 Amendment details: 2 Government agreed to
Committee of the Whole debate 28/11/18 Amendment details: 2 Government agreed to
Third reading agreed to 28/11/18  
     
House of Representatives
Consideration of Senate message 28/11/18 Details: House agreed to Senate amendments
     
Finally passed both Houses 28/11/18  
Assent 10/12/18 Act no: 162 - Year: 2018
     

[Information on document types]

Text of bill

  • First reading

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  • As passed by both Houses

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Explanatory memoranda

  • Explanatory memorandum

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  • Supplementary explanatory memorandum

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Second reading speeches


Proposed amendments

Senate
  • Australian Conservatives [sheet 8345]
BERNARDI, Sen Cory

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  • Government [sheet MY124]

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  • Nick Xenophon Team [sheet 7940 revised 3]
GRIFF, Sen Stirling

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  • Pauline Hanson's One Nation [sheet 7942]
HANSON, Sen Pauline

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Schedules of amendments

  • Schedule of the amendments made by the Senate

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Notes