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Migration (Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro)-United Nations Security Council Resolutions) Regulations (Repeal)

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This Act has been repealed and is no longer in force. It is retained for historical reference.

Jurisdiction

Commonwealth

Act Number

279 of 1996

Collection

legislative instrument

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This regulation removes (repeals) earlier migration restrictions that targeted the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro).

During the 1990s Balkan conflicts, Australia imposed special visa and entry restrictions on people from Serbia and Montenegro to comply with United Nations Security Council sanctions. Those rules were set out in regulations made in 1994 and 1996.

This instrument cancels those restrictions entirely. It means:

People from Serbia and Montenegro are no longer subject to those specific migration bans or limitations
The Department of Immigration stops applying these sanctions-related checks

This change reflects the easing of international sanctions against the former Yugoslavia, removing a wartime migration control that is no longer needed.

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Statutory Rules 1996 No. 2791

Migration (Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro)—United Nations Security Council Resolutions) Regulations (Repeal)

I, The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Migration Act 1958.

Dated 11 December 1996.

WILLIAM DEANE

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

PHILIP RUDDOCK

Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs

1. Repeal

1.1 Statutory Rules 1994 No. 266 and 1996 No. 13 are repealed.

[NOTE: These Regulations commence on gazettal: see Acts Interpretation Act 1901, s. 48.]

NOTE

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 12 December 1996.

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