Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

MIGRATION ACT 1958 - SECT 201

    Where:

  (a)   a person who is a non - citizen has, either before or after the commencement of this section, been convicted in Australia of an offence;

  (b)   when the offence was committed the person was a non - citizen who:

  (i)   had been in Australia as a permanent resident:

  (A)   for a period of less than 10 years; or

  (B)   for periods that, when added together, total less than 10 years; or

  (ii)   was a citizen of New Zealand who had been in Australia as an exempt non - citizen or a special category visa holder:

  (A)   for a period of less than 10 years as an exempt non - citizen or a special category visa holder; or

  (B)   for periods that, when added together, total less than 10 years, as an exempt non - citizen or a special category visa holder or in any combination of those capacities; and

  (c)   the offence is an offence for which the person was sentenced to death or to imprisonment for life or for a period of not less than one year;

section   200 applies to the person.