Migration Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1988 No. 2021

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Migration Regulations2 (Amendment)

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Migration Act 1958.

Dated 19 August 1988.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

CLYDE HOLDING

Minister of State for Immigration,

Local Government and Ethnic Affairs

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Commencement

1. (1) Subject to subregulation (2), these Regulations commence on 24 August 1988.

(2) Regulation 2 commences on 1 September 1988.

Fees for entry permits

2. Regulation 29a of the Migration Regulations is amended:

(a) by omitting from paragraph (I) (a) “—is $50” and substituting “, is $50”;

(b) by omitting from paragraph (1) (b) “—$300” and substituting “,$315”.

Fees for non-citizen entry visas

3. Regulation 29ab of the Migration Regulations is amended:

(a) by omitting subregulation (2) and substituting the following subregulation:

“(2) Subject to this regulation, where a person lodges an application for:

(a) a non-citizen conditional entry visa; or

(b) a non-citizen entry visa;

the fee payable on lodging the application is $200.”;

(b) by omitting subregulations (3) and (4).

Transitional

4. Where:

(a) before the commencement of regulation 3, the amount payable under paragraph 29ab (3) (a) of the Migration Regulations (as in force immediately before that commencement) on the lodging of an application for a visa has been paid; and

(b) immediately before that commencement no amount has been paid in respect of that application under paragraph 29ab (3) (b) of those Regulations as then in force;

the fee payable in respect of the application is the fee specified in subregulation 29ab (2) of those Regulations as in force immediately before that commencement and subregulations 29ab (3) and (4) of those Regulations as in force immediately before that commencement shall continue to apply in respect of the application and in respect of the amount payable under paragraph 29ab (3) (b) of those Regulations as if regulation 3 of these Regulations had not been made.

 

NOTE

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 24 August 1988.

2. Statutory Rules 1959 No. 35 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1988 No. 201 and see also