Overview of the Bill
This Bill will have the effect of:
- providing an offer of transfer to Australia from the Minister to all persons in the offshore cohort in Papua New Guinea or the Republic of Nauru at the commencement of this Act, who have not had an adverse security assessment made against them by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation
- placing all transferred persons into community detention, and making any medical assessment and treatment they require available to them, while that person pursues a durable solution for their displacement with a third-country that is a state party to the United Nations f 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees or the 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees
Source: Migration-Amendment-Evacuation-to-Safety-Bill-2023.pdf and
Migration-Amendment-Evacuation-to-Safety-Bill-2023---explanatory-memorandum.pdf
Migration-Amendment-Evacuation-to-Safety-Bill-2023-second-reading-speech.pdf