(3) The remaining provisions of this Act commence on 1 November 1993
3 (3) The remaining provisions of this Act commence on 1 November 1993
After section 3 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:
Object of Act
“3A.
The object of this Act is to regulate, in the national interest, the coming into, and presence in, Australia of non-citizens.
“(2) To advance its object, this Act provides for visas permitting non-citizens to enter or remain in Australia and the Parliament intends that this Act be the only source of the right of non-citizens to so enter or remain.
“(3) To advance its object, this Act requires persons entering Australia to identify themselves so that the Commonwealth government can know who are the non-citizens so entering.
“(4) To advance its object, this Act provides for the removal or deportation from Australia of non-citizens whose presence in Australia is not permitted by this Act.”.
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