Australian Citizenship Amendment (Payment of Fees) Regulations 2018 (Cth)

Australian Citizenship Amendment (Payment of Fees) Regulations 2018

I, the Honourable Paul de Jersey AC, Administrator of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 06 December 2018

Paul de Jersey AC

Administrator of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia

By His Excellency’s Command

David Coleman

Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs

Contents

1Name

This instrument is the Australian Citizenship Amendment (Payment of Fees) Regulations 2018.

2Commencement

1. (1)

   Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1. The whole of this instrument	1 January 2019.	1 January 2019

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

1. (2)

   Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3Authority

This instrument is made under the Australian Citizenship Act 2007.

4Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Australian Citizenship Regulation 2016

1

Subsection 16(7)

Repeal the subsection, substitute:

1. (7)

   In this section:

conversion instrument means the Migration (LIN 19/001: Payment of Visa Application Charges and Fees in Foreign Currencies) Instrument 2019 made for the purposes of paragraph 5.36(1A)(a) of the Migration Regulations 1994 and as in force on 1 January 2019.

places and currencies instrument means the Migration (LIN 19/002: Places and Currencies for Paying of Fees) Instrument 2019 made for the purposes of paragraphs 5.36(1)(a) and (b) of the Migration Regulations 1994 and as in force on 1 January 2019.

2

In the appropriate position in Part 4

Insert:

22Application of amendment made by Schedule 1 to the Australian Citizenship Amendment (Payment of Fees) Regulations 2018

The amendment of section 16 made by item 1 of Schedule 1 to the Australian Citizenship Amendment (Payment of Fees) Regulations 2018 applies in relation to an application made on or after 1 January 2019.