# When visa is in effect

> act-s68 — as in force on 2026-06-04 — C2026C00232 · Compilation No. 171 — https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2026C00232/latest/text

68 When visa is in effect
          (1) Subject to subsection (2), a visa has effect as soon as it is granted.
          (2) A visa may provide that it comes into effect at the beginning of a
              day, being a day after its grant:
               (a) specified in the visa; or
               (b) when an event, specified in the visa, happens.
          (3) A visa can only be in effect during the visa period for the visa.
               Note:      A visa that has ceased to be in effect under section 84E may come into
                          effect again under that section during the visa period for the visa.










          (4) A bridging visa (the reactivated bridging visa), held by a
              non-citizen, that has ceased to be in effect under subsection 82(3),
              will come into effect again during the visa period for the visa if:
               (a) the non-citizen does not hold a substantive visa that is in
                    effect; and
               (b) either:
                      (i) the non-citizen does not hold any other bridging visa; or
                     (ii) the reactivated bridging visa is determined, in
                          accordance with the regulations, to be the most
                          beneficial of the bridging visas held by the applicant.
          (5) Subsection (4) does not apply in relation to a Subclass 070
              (Bridging (Removal Pending)) visa (the first visa) for a non-citizen
              that ceases to be in effect under subsection 82(3) if the first visa
              ceases to be in effect under subsection 82(3) because another
              Subclass 070 (Bridging (Removal Pending)) visa for the
              non-citizen comes into effect.
          (6) For the purposes of subparagraph (b)(ii) of the definition of visa
              period in subsection 5(1), the first visa is to be taken to have
              ceased to be in effect otherwise than under subsection 82(3).
               Note:      This means that the visa period for the first visa ends when the second
                          visa comes into effect.