Migration and Maritime Powers Legislation Amendment (Resolving the Asylum Legacy Caseload) Act 2014 (135 of 2014)

Schedule 5   Clarifying Australia's international law obligations

Part 1   Removal of unlawful non-citizens

Division 1   Amendments commencing on the day after Royal Assent

Migration Act 1958

1   Subsection 5(1)

Insert:

Convention Against Torture means the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment done at New York on 10 December 1984.

Note: The Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment is in Australian Treaty Series 1989 No. 21 ([1989] ATS 21) and could in 2014 be viewed in the Australian Treaties Library on the AustLII website (http://www.austlii.edu.au).

non-refoulement obligations includes, but is not limited to:

(a) non-refoulement obligations that may arise because Australia is a party to:

(i) the Refugees Convention; or

(ii) the Covenant; or

(iii) the Convention Against Torture; and

(b) any obligations accorded by customary international law that are of a similar kind to those mentioned in paragraph (a).