198AA(d):
the designation of a country to be an offshore processing country need not be determined by reference to the international obligations or domestic law of that country
198AB:
(1) The Minister may, in writing, designate that a country is an 18
offshore processing country.
(2) The only condition for the exercise of the power under subsection (1) is that the Minister thinks that it is in the public interest to designate the country to be an offshore processing country…
(5) The rules of natural justice do not apply to the exercise of the 28
power under subsection (1) or (4).
(2) Nothing in this Act:
(a) affects the operation of the migration law; or
(b) affects the performance or exercise, or the purported performance or exercise, of any function, duty or power under the migration law; or
(c) imposes any obligation on the Minister to exercise, or to consider exercising, any power conferred on the Minister by or under the migration law.
(3) Without limiting subsection (2), nothing in this Act affects the performance or exercise, or the purported performance or exercise, of any function, duty or power relating to:
(a) the removal of a non-citizen child from Australia under section 198 or 199 of the Migration Act 1958; or
(b) the taking of a non-citizen child from Australia to an offshore processing country under section @198AD of that Act; or
(c) the deportation of a non-citizen child under section 200 of that Act; or
(d) the taking of a non-citizen child to a place outside Australia under paragraph 245F(9)(b) of that Act.
