{"id":"F2009L01026","name":"Migration Legislation Amendment Act (No. 1) 2009 - Proclamation (13/03/2009)","slug":"migration-legislation-amendment-act-no-1-2009-proclamation-13-03-2009","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":78727,"registerId":"commonwealth-F2009L01026-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-02","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Migration Legislation Amendment Act (No. 1) 2009 - Proclamation (13/03/2009)","content":"---\nmeta-content-style-type: text/css\nmeta-content-type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8\nmeta-generator: Aspose.Words for .NET 20.2\ntitle: Proclamation\n---\n\n?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" standalone=\"no\"?>\n\n![](image.001.png)\n\nProclamation\n\nMigration Legislation Amendment Act (No. 1) 2009\n\nI, QUENTIN BRYCE, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council and under item 2 of the table in subsection 2 (1) of the Migration Legislation Amendment Act (No. 1) 2009, fix 15 March 2009 as the day on which Schedules 1 to 3 to that Act commence.\n\nSigned and sealed with the  Great Seal of Australia  on 13 March 2009\n\nQUENTIN BRYCE  Governor-General\n\nBy Her Excellency’s Command\n\nCHRIS EVANS\n\nMinister for Immigration and Citizenship\n\n \n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":1855},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This is a procedural commencement instrument exercising the power in the parent Act's section 2(1). It performs exactly its intended function of fixing the start date for specified schedules and has not expanded beyond this single purpose."},"complexity_factors":["Single operative clause fixing a commencement date","No defined terms requiring interpretation","No conditional logic or nested exceptions","Direct reference to existing legislative provision without complex cross-referencing"],"plain_english_summary":"This document is a formal **proclamation** (an official announcement issued by the Governor-General) that activates parts of an existing migration law.\n\nSpecifically, it sets **15 March 2009** as the date when **Schedules 1 to 3** of the *Migration Legislation Amendment Act (No. 1) 2009* come into force (become legally active).\n\n**Why this matters:**\n- Australian laws often pass Parliament but remain inactive until a specific date is set. This document officially \"switches on\" the first three schedules of that Amendment Act.\n- Without this proclamation, the changes to migration law contained in those schedules could not be enforced, even though they had already been approved by Parliament.\n- The document itself is purely procedural—it does not create new legal rules, but rather activates rules that were already written in the Amendment Act."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/migration-legislation-amendment-act-no-1-2009-proclamation-13-03-2009","history":"/api/acts/migration-legislation-amendment-act-no-1-2009-proclamation-13-03-2009/history","analysis":"/api/acts/migration-legislation-amendment-act-no-1-2009-proclamation-13-03-2009/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/migration-legislation-amendment-act-no-1-2009-proclamation-13-03-2009/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/migration-legislation-amendment-act-no-1-2009-proclamation-13-03-2009/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/migration-legislation-amendment-act-no-1-2009-proclamation-13-03-2009/documents"}}