Migration Regulations 1994 Specification of Transit Passengers who are Eligible for a Special Purpose Visa IMMI 05/080 (Cth)

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Commonwealth of Australia

Migration Act 1958

Migration Regulations 1994

TRANSIT PASSENGERS WHO ARE ELIGIBLE FOR A SPECIAL PURPOSE VISA)

I, AMANDA VANSTONE, Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs, acting under regulation 1.17 and paragraph 2.40(l)(n) of the Migration Regulations 1994 (‘the Regulations’), hereby:

1.REVOKE the Instrument signed on 19 July 2005 specifying transit passengers for the purposes of paragraph 2.40(1)(n) of the Regulations; and

2.SPECIFY each class of persons specified in clauses (a) to (d) of Attachment A to this instrument as a class of persons for the purposes of paragraph 2.40(1)(n) of the Regulations.

This Instrument commences on 1 November 2005. 

Dated 13 October 2005      

AMANDA VANSTONE

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 matters required by individual provisions of the Regulations to be specified for the purposes of those provisions.

NOTE 2: Regulation 2.40(1)(n) of the Regulations provides that transit passengers who belong to a class of persons specified by Gazette Notice are prescribed as having a Special Purpose Visa for the purposes of section 33(2)(a) of the Migration Act 1958.]


ATTACHMENT A

(a)      Citizens of the following foreign countries:

Andorra Italy Republic of South Africa
Argentina Japan Republic of Marshall Islands
Austria Kiribati Samoa
Belgium Latvia San Marino
Brunei Liechtenstein Singapore
Canada Lithuania Slovakia
Cyprus Luxembourg Slovenia
Czech Republic Malaysia Solomon Islands
Denmark Malta South Korea
Estonia Mexico Spain
Federated States of Micronesia Monaco Sweden
Finland Nauru Switzerland
Fiji Netherlands Thailand
France New Zealand Tonga
Germany Norway Tuvalu
Greece Palau United Kingdom (including its colonies)
Hungary Papua New Guinea United States of America
Iceland Philippines Vanuatu
Indonesia Poland Vatican
Ireland Portugal

(b)       Residents of Hong Kong holding Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) passports or British National Overseas (BNO) passports.

(c)        Residents of Taiwan holding a passport issued by the authorities of Taiwan (other than passports purported to be official or diplomatic passports).

(d)        Diplomatic passport holders, excluding holders of:

•      Arab Non-National Passports; and

•      Diplomatic passports from the following foreign countries:

Afghanistan Jordon Republic of Yemen
Algeria Kuwait Russian Federation
Angola Lebanon Saudi Arabia
Bahrain Libya Sierra Leone
Bosnia and Herzegovina Madagascar Somalia
Comoros Mauritania Sudan
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Morocco Syria
Egypt Oman Tunisia
Iran Pakistan United Arab Emirates
Iraq Qatar Zimbabwe
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