Migration Act 1958 Determination of Eligible Passports IMMI 13/158 (Cth)

Commonwealth of Australia

Migration Act 1958

ELIGIBLE PASSPORTS

(SECTION 175A)

I, ELIZABETH COSSON, Acting Secretary of the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, acting under section 175A of the Migration Act 1958 (the ‘Act’):

1.         REVOKE Instrument number IMMI 13/139 signed on 6 November 2013 determining eligible passports for the purposes of section 175A; AND

2. DETERMINE that for the purposes of section 165 of the Act, the following kinds of passports are ‘eligible passports’:

(a)        Australian ePassports; and

(b)        New Zealand ePassports; and

(c)        Singaporean ePassports; and

(d)       Swiss ePassports; and

(e)        United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ePassports; and

(f)        United States of America ePassports

This Instrument, IMMI 13/158, commences on 24 February 2014.

Dated   7 February 2014

ELIZABETH COSSON

Acting Secretary of the Department of Immigration and Border Protection