Home Affairs Legislation Amendment (2025 Measures No. 1) Bill 2025

The majority voted in favour of a motion "that part 2 and item 10 of schedule 1 stand as printed". In other words, they voted to keep those parts unchanged.

What do those parts do?

According to the explanatory memorandum:

Part 2 of Schedule 1 intends to ensure that past visa decisions are not invalidated on the ground identified in AJN23. This covers relevant visa decisions that would be wholly or partly invalid only because they were made, or purportedly made, on the understanding of the Migration Act following the decision in Al-Kateb v Godwin [2004] HCA 37, which was overturned by NZYQ.

Item 10 of Schedule 1 provides that certain actions relating to third country reception arrangements are held to be valid, and to have always been valid.

Amendment text

SHEET 3427

(7) Schedule 1, item 10, page 6 (line 32) to page 8 (line 16), to be opposed.

SHEET 3430

(1) Schedule 1, Part 2, page 9 (line 1) to page 11 (line 19), to be opposed.