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49: Visas may be subject to conditions
or “Visas can have specific rules and limits attached”
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“Rules for changing conditions on your resident visa”

When the Minister gives you a resident visa that’s different from the usual rules, they can add extra conditions or change the normal ones. Even after you get your resident visa, the Minister can add new conditions, change existing ones, or cancel them. This can happen by the Minister’s decision or if you agree to it.

If the Minister changes your visa conditions, they need to tell you about it. The new conditions start working either from the day you get your visa or from a date they specify when they tell you about the changes.

The Minister can change conditions on any resident visa, no matter how you got it. But they can’t add or change conditions on a permanent resident visa at any time.

When the Minister or an immigration officer tells you about changes to your visa conditions, they will let you know when the changes start. If the changes happen when you first get your visa, they start right away. If the changes happen later, they will start on the date mentioned in the notice, but not before you are told about them.

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Part 3 Visas
Visas generally: Visa conditions

50Conditions on resident visas

  1. On granting a resident visa as an exception to residence instructions, the Minister may—

  2. impose conditions in addition to those specified in the applicable residence instructions (if any):
    1. vary or waive conditions that would otherwise apply to a visa of that type.

      1. Following the grant of a resident visa, the Minister may, by special direction,—

      2. impose further conditions whether or not the conditions are specified in the applicable residence instructions (if any):
        1. vary or cancel conditions that would otherwise apply to the visa or were imposed under subsection (1).

          1. The Minister may also do 1 or more of the things in subsection (2) by agreement with the visa holder.

          2. A condition imposed, varied, waived, or cancelled under this section—

          3. must be notified to the visa holder by the Minister or an immigration officer; and
            1. takes effect—
              1. from the date the visa is granted, if the condition is imposed, varied, or waived when the visa is granted; or
                1. from the date specified in the notice (being a date not earlier than the date of notification), in any other case.

                2. Repealed

                3. Repealed

                4. Repealed

                5. Repealed

                6. Repealed

                7. To avoid doubt,—

                8. subsection (2) applies whether the resident visa was granted as an exception to residence instructions or otherwise:
                  1. nothing in this section allows the Minister to impose conditions on a permanent resident visa, whether at the time of or subsequent to granting the visa.

                    Notes
                    • Section 50(4A): repealed, on the , by section 50(4E).
                    • Section 50(4B): repealed, on the , by section 50(4E).
                    • Section 50(4C): repealed, on the , by section 50(4E).
                    • Section 50(4D): repealed, on the , by section 50(4E).
                    • Section 50(4E): repealed, on the , by section 50(4E).