Migration (Approved Activities) Instrument (LIN 24/054) 2024
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Migration (Approved Activities) Instrument (LIN 24/054) 2024
I, Stephanie Foster PSM, Secretary of the Department of Home Affairs, make this instrument.
Dated 25 June 2024
Stephanie Foster PSM
Secretary of the Department of Home Affairs
Contents
1 Name
2 Commencement
3 Authority
4 Definitions
5 Schedules
6 Approved activities
Schedule 1—Repeals
Migration (Approved Activities) Instrument (LIN 20/053) 2020
1 Name
This instrument is the Migration (Approved Activities) Instrument (LIN 24/054) 2024.
2 Commencement
This instrument commences on 1 July 2024.
3 Authority
This instrument is made under paragraph 245AF(a) of the Migration Act 1958.
4 Definitions
Note: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in subsection 5(1) of the Act, including the following:
(a) detainee;
(b) immigration detention.
In this instrument:
Act means the Migration Act 1958.
Regulations means the Migration Regulations 1994.
5 Schedules
Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.
6 Approved activities
(1) For the purposes of paragraph 245AF(a) of the Act, the following activities, when voluntarily engaged in by a detainee in immigration detention, are approved:
(a) for personal purposes—activities including but not limited to:
(i) gardening;
(ii) cleaning; or
(iii) painting;
(b) cooking and food preparation;
(c) community activities for charitable and other not-for-profit organisations, including fundraising activities that provide a benefit to the local community;
(d) educational classes and activities;
(e) computer activities;
(f) arts or crafts activities;
(g) excursions outside of the immigration detention centre;
(h) religious services and cultural activities;
(i) recreational activities including any of the following:
(i) games;
(ii) physical fitness activities;
(iii) reading;
(iv) music;
(v) sport and sporting competitions;
(vi) television and movies.
Note: Paragraph 245AF(a) of the Act provides that Subdivision C of Division 12 of Part 2 of the Act does not apply where a detainee in immigration detention voluntarily engages in an activity of a kind approved in writing by the Secretary.
Schedule 1—Repeals
Migration (Approved Activities) Instrument (LIN 20/053) 2020
1 The whole of the instrument
Repeal the instrument.