Migration Act 1958 Determination under section 175A Eligible Passports August 2007 (Cth)

Commonwealth of Australia

Migration Act 1958

ELIGIBLE PASSPORTS

(SECTION 175A)

I, ANDREW METCALFE, Secretary to the Department of Immigration and Citizenship, acting under subsection 175A:

DETERMINE that for the purposes of section 165, the following kinds of passports are “eligible passports”:

1. Australian ePassports; and
2. New Zealand ePassports.

This Instrument, IMMI 07/030 will take effect 27 August 2007.

Dated             24 August    2007

ANDREW METCALFE

Secretary to the Department of Immigration and Citizenship

[NOTE 1: Section 165 of the Act provides that ‘eligible passport’ means a passport of a kind specified in a determination under section 175A.

NOTE 2:         Section 166 provides, relevantly, that a person who holds an eligible passport may, in certain circumstances, be immigration cleared via an authorised system, rather than an immigration clearance officer.

NOTE 3:         Section 175A provides that for the purposes of Division 5 of Part 2, which deals with immigration clearance, the Minister or the Secretary may determine, by legislative instrument, that a specified kind of passport is an eligible passport.]