Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations

MIGRATION REFORM (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) REGULATIONS - REG 9

A non-citizen who, immediately before 1 September 1994, held an old visa of the kind known as:

(a)

an Authority to Return; or

(b)

a Return Endorsement;

is taken, on 1 September 1994, to have been granted a transitional (permanent) visa permitting the holder:

(c)

to travel to and enter Australia within 3 years after each departure from Australia; and

(d)

to remain indefinitely in Australia.