Migration Act 1958 Determination under section 175A Eligible Passports October 2012 (Cth)

Commonwealth of Australia

Migration Act 1958

ELIGIBLE PASSPORTS

(SECTION 175A)

I, MARTIN BOWLES, Acting Secretary to the Department of Immigration and Citizenship, acting under section 175A of the Migration Act 1958 (the ‘Act’):

1.         REVOKE Instrument number IMMI 07/030 signed on 24 August 2007 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)        United States of America ePassports.

This Instrument, IMMI 12/102, will commence on 1 November 2012.

Dated            12 October           2012

Martin Bowles

Acting 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.]