Section 5MMigration Act 1958 (Cth)

Particularly serious crime

For the purposes of the application of this Act and the regulations to a particular person, paragraph 36(1C)(b) has effect as if a reference in that paragraph to a particularly serious crime included a reference to a crime that consists of the commission of:

(a) a serious Australian offence; or

(b) a serious foreign offence.

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