Migration Regulations 1994 Specification of Passports September 2003 (Cth)

Commonwealth of Australia

Migration Act 1958

Migration Regulations 1994

SPECIFICATION OF PASSPORTS FOR THE PURPOSES OF PARAGRAPHS 1.40(1)(a) & (b)

I, Philip Ruddock, Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, acting under regulations 1.17 and 1.40 of the Migration Regulations 1994 ("the Regulations"):

1. REVOKE the Gazette Notice specifying passports for the purposes of paragraphs 1.40(1)(a)&(b) signed on 28 June 2001;

1. SPECIFY each passport referred to in the schedule to this instrument as an eligible passport for the purposes of the definition of "eligible passport" in paragraph 1.40(1)(a) of the Regulations; and

1. SPECIFY the conditions referred to (if any) in the same schedule as conditions that must be satisfied by the specified passport for the purposes of paragraph 1.40(1)(b) of the Regulations.

This Notice comes into effect upon publication.

Dated 15 September 2003.

PHILIP RUDDOCK

Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs

[NOTE 1: Regulation 1.17 of the Regulations provides that the Minister may, by notice published in the Gazette, specify matter required by individual provisions of the Regulations to be specified for the purposes of those provisions.

NOTE: 2:   Subregulation 1.40(1) provides that a passport is an eligible passport if it is a valid passport of a kind specified by Gazette Notice for this Regulation (paragraph 1.40(1)(a)) and the conditions (if any) specified by Gazette Notice for passports of that kind are satisfied (paragraph 1.40(1)(b)).

SCHEDULE 1 - Eligible Passports

COLUMN 1   COLUMN 2

Kind of Passport:   Conditions:

Afghanistan

Albania

Algeria

American Samoa

Andorra

Angola

Anguilla

Antarctica

Antigua and Barbuda

Argentina

Armenia

Aruba

Austria

Azerbaijan

Bahamas

Bahrain

Bangladesh

Barbados

Belarus

Belgium

Belize

Benin

Bermuda

Bhutan

Bolivia

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Botswana

Bouvet Island

Brazil

British Indian Ocean Territory

Brunei Darussalam

Bulgaria

Burkina Faso

Burundi

Cambodia, Kingdom of

Cameroon

Canada

Cape Verde

Cayman Islands

Central African Republic

Chad

Chile

China, People’s Republic of

Colombia

Comoros

Congo (Zaire)

Cook Islands

Costa Rica

Cote d'Ivoire

Croatia

Cuba

Cyprus

Czech Republic

Czechoslovakia

Denmark

Djibouti

Dominica

Dominican Republic

East Timor

Ecuador

Egypt

El Salvador

Equatorial Guinea

Eritrea

Estonia

Ethiopia

Falkland Islands (Malvinas)

Faroe Islands

Fiji

Finland

France

French Guiana

French Polynesia

French Southern Territories

Gabon

Gambia

Georgia

Germany

Ghana

Gibraltar

Greece

Greenland

Grenada

Guadeloupe

Guam

Guatemala

Guinea

Guinea-Bissau

Guyana

Haiti

Honduras

Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China

Hungary

Iceland

India

Indonesia

Iran, Islamic Republic of

Iraq

Ireland, Republic of

Israel

Italy

Jamaica

Japan

Jordan

Kazakhstan

Kenya

Kiribati

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of

Korea, Republic of

Kuwait

Kyrgyzstan

Lao People’s Democratic Republic

Latvia

Lebanon

Lesotho

Liberia

Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

Liechtenstein

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Macau Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China

Madagascar

Malawi

Malaysia

Maldives

Mali

Malta

Marshall Islands

Martinique

Mauritania

Mauritius

Mayotte

Mexico

Micronesia, Federated States of

Moldova, Republic of

Monaco

Mongolia

Montserrat

Morocco

Mozambique

Myanmar (Burma)

Namibia

Nauru

Nepal

Netherlands, Kingdom of the

Netherlands Antilles

New Caledonia

New Zealand

Nicaragua

Niger

Nigeria

Niue

Mariana Islands

Norway

Oman

Pakistan

Palau

Palestinian Authority

Panama

Papua New Guinea

Paraguay

Peru

Philippines

Pitcairn

Poland

Portugal

Puerto rico

Qatar

Reunion

Romania

Russian Federation

Rwanda

St Helena

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Saint Lucia

St Pierre and Miquelon

St Vincent and the Grenadines

Samoa

San Marino

Sao Tome and Principe

Saudi Arabia

Senegal

Serbia and Montenegro

Seychelles

Sierra Leone

Singapore

Slovak Republic

Slovenia

Solomon Islands

South Africa

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

Soviet Union (U.S.S.R.)

Spain

Sri Lanka

Sudan

Suriname

Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands

Swaziland

Sweden

Switzerland

Syrian Arab Republic

Taiwan

Tajikistan

Tanzania, United Republic of

Thailand

The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

Togo

Tokelau

Tonga

Trinidad and Tobago

Tunisia

Turkey

Turkmenistan

Turks and Caicos Islands

Tuvalu

Uganda

Ukraine

United Arab Emirates

United Kingdom

United Nations Organisation

United Nations Agency

United States of America

United States Minor Outlying Islands

Uruguay

Uzbekistan

Vanuatu

Vatican City State (Holy See)

Venezuela

Viet Nam

Virgin Islands (British)

Virgin Islands (U.S)

Wallis and Futuna Islands

Western Sahara

Yemen, Republic of

Yugoslavia

Zambia

Zimbabwe