# Registration applications made before the Division 8 commencement day

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333D Registration applications made before the Division 8
         commencement day

               Scope
          (1) This section applies in relation to a person if, immediately before
              the Division 8 commencement day:
                (a) the person had made a registration application (whether or
                    not the person had previously been registered as a migration
                    agent); and








                 (b) the Migration Agents Registration Authority had not made a
                     decision in relation to the application.

               Application of amendments to registration applications
          (2) The amendments of Division 3 made by Schedule 1 to the
              amending Act apply in relation to the registration application as if
              it had been made on or after the Division 8 commencement day.
               Note:         On and after the Division 8 commencement day, some Australian
                             legal practitioners cannot be registered as migration agents (see
                             section 289B).

          (3) If the person was an unrestricted legal practitioner immediately
              before the Division 8 commencement day, section 300 (automatic
              continuation of registration) does not apply on and after that day in
              relation to the registration application.
               Note:         If the registration had been taken to continue under subsection 300(4)
                             before the Division 8 commencement day, the registration would end
                             at the start of that day (see section 333B).

          (4) Despite section 291 (applicant must not be registered if registration
              refused in past year), if the person’s registration application is
              refused because of section 289B (inserted by Schedule 1 to the
              amending Act), the refusal of the application does not prevent the
              person from being registered as a migration agent in accordance
              with a later registration application made at any time on or after the
              Division 8 commencement day.