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Extracts from the Immigration Restriction Act 1901
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1901 |
IMMIGRATION RESTRICTION |
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No. 17 of 1901
An Act to place certain restrictions on Immigration and to provide for the removal from the Commonwealth of prohibited Immigrants.
[Assented to 23rd December, 1901]
BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia as follows:-
| 1. | This Act may be cited as the Immigration Restriction Act 1901. |
| 2. | The immigration into the Commonwealth of the persons described in any of the following paragraphs of this section (hereinafter called 'prohibited immigrants') is prohibited, namely:- |
| (a) | Any person who when asked to do so by an officer fails to write out at dictation and sign in the presence of the officer a passage of fifty words in length in a European language directed by the officer; |
| (b) | any person likely in the opinion of the Minister or of an officer to become a charge upon the public or upon any public or charitable institution; |
| (c) | any idiot or insane person; |
| (d) | any person suffering from an infectious or contagious disease of a loathsome or dangerous character; |
| (e) | any person who has within three years been convicted of an offence, not being a mere political offence, and has been sentenced to imprisonment for one year or long therefore, and has not received pardon; |
| (f) | any prostitute or person living on the prostitution of others... |
Modern Australian History
| The beginning of Immigration to Australia | Convicts in Australia | Letter from a convict |
Immigration
| immigration background | Attitudes towards European immigration | Postwar immigration | Extracts - Immigration Restriction Act 1901 | Refugee's story |
Chronology of key events from:
| 1848-1890 leading upto Gold | 1892-1945 | 1945-73 | 1973-92 |