Migration Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1987 No. 3131

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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 21 December 1987.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

M. J. YOUNG

Minister of State for Immigration,

Local Government and Ethnic Affairs

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Commencement

1. These Regulations shall come into operation on 1 January 1988.

Principal Regulations

2. In the Regulations, “Principal Regulations” means the Migration Regulations.

Fees for entry permits

3. Regulation 29a of the Principal Regulations is amended by inserting after subregulation (1) the following subregulation:

“(1aa) Where:

(a) a person is already present in Australia;

(b) the person lodges an application for a temporary entry permit (other than a temporary entry permit of a kind referred to in regulation 29aa or 29d), or for an entry permit other than a temporary entry permit;

the fee payable on lodging the application is:

(c) if the application is for the grant of such a temporary entry permit—$50; or

(d) if the application is for the grant of such an entry permit—$300.”.

Fee for certain permanent entry visas

4. Regulation 29ab of the Principal Regulations is amended by inserting after subregulation (2) the following subregulation:

“(2a) Where the applicant for a visa of a kind referred to in subregulation (2) provides, in relation to the application, evidence in writing that the person:

(a) has entered into a business partnership or a joint venture partnership to be conducted in Australia; or

(b) intends to transfer or otherwise bring to Australia, for the purposes of a business enterprise, money, capital or other assets in an amount of not less than $500,000;

the fee payable in respect of the application for the relevant visa is $1,000.”.

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 22 December 1987.

2. Statutory Rules 1959 No. 35 as amended to date. For previous amendments, see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1987 No. 86 and see also