Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations

MIGRATION REFORM (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) REGULATIONS - REG 12

(1)

This regulation applies to a non-citizen who:

(a)

was outside Australia on 1 September 1994; and

(b)

immediately before that date, held a visa permitting him or her to travel to, or to travel to and enter Australia; and

(c)

would be a non-citizen to whom regulation 10 or 13 applies if he or she had been in Australia on 1 September 1994.

(2)

A non-citizen to whom this regulation applies is taken, on 1 September 1994, to have been granted a bridging visa Class B permitting him or her:

(a)

to travel to and enter Australia during the period during which the visa referred to in paragraph (1) (b) would have permitted him or her to do so; and

(b)

to remain in Australia until 28 days after his or her substantive visa application is finally determined.