- (1)
- If:
- (a)
- 2 or more visa applicants have combined their pre-reform visa
applications in Australia, in a way permitted by the Migration (1989)
Regulations or the Migration (1993) Regulations; and
- (b)
- the Minister's
decisions in respect of 2 or more of those visa applicants are that visas not
be granted;
the visa applicants referred to in paragraph (b) may combine
their applications for internal review of the Minister's decisions.
- (2)
- If:
- (a)
- a person has nominated or sponsored 2 or more members of a
family unit in respect of pre-reform visa applications by them for visas of a
class for which it was a criterion that an applicant be sponsored or
nominated; and
- (b)
- the members of a family unit referred to in paragraph (a)
have combined their pre-reform visa applications in a way permitted by the
Migration (1989) Regulations or the Migration (1993) Regulations; and
- (c)
- the
Minister's decisions in respect of 2 or more of the members of that family
unit are that visas not be granted;
the nominator or sponsor may combine his
or her applications for internal review of the Minister's decisions in respect
of each of the members of the family unit to whom the Minister refused to
grant a visa.
- (3)
- If:
- (a)
- 2 or more visa applicants have combined their pre-reform visa
applications, in a way permitted by the Migration (1989) Regulations or the
Migration (1993) Regulations, for visas of a class for which it was a
criterion that an applicant have a parent, spouse, child, brother or sister
who is an Australian citizen or an Australian permanent resident; and
- (b)
- the
Minister's decisions in respect of 2 or more of those visa applicants are that
visas not be granted;
an Australian citizen or Australian permanent resident who is a parent,
spouse, child, brother or sister of the visa applicants may combine his or her
applications for internal review of the Minister's decisions in respect of
each of those visa applicants to whom the Minister refused to grant a visa.
Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations