Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) Except as prescribed, nothing in this Act shall affect the operation in relation to non - citizen children of any provision of the laws of any State or Territory relating to child welfare.
(2) Nothing in this Act:
(a) affects the operation of the migration law; or
(b) affects the performance or exercise, or the purported performance or exercise, of any function, duty or power under the migration law or the Maritime Powers Act 2013 ; or
(c) imposes any obligation on the Minister or another Minister to exercise, or to consider exercising, any power conferred by or under the migration law or the Maritime Powers Act 2013 .
(3) Without limiting subsection (2), nothing in this Act affects the performance or exercise, or the purported performance or exercise, of any function, duty or power relating to:
(a) the removal of a non - citizen child from Australia under section 198 or 199 of the Migration Act 1958 ; or
(b) the taking of a non - citizen child from Australia to a regional processing country under section 198AD of that Act; or
(c) the deportation of a non - citizen child under section 200 of that Act; or
(d) the taking of a non - citizen child to a place outside Australia under paragraph 245F(9)(b) of that Act, or under Division 7 or 8 of Part 3 of the Maritime Powers Act 2013 .