Migration Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1986 No. 3841

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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 18 December 1986.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

C. J. HURFORD

Minister of State for Immigration

and Ethnic Affairs

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Commencement

1. These Regulations shall come into operation on 1 January 1987.

Fee for non-citizen conditional entry or entry visa

2. Regulation 29ab of the Migration Regulations is amended by omitting paragraph (5) (a).

3. After regulation 29ab of the Migration Regulations the following regulation is inserted:

Fee for resident return visa

“29ac. (1) In this regulation—

‘resident’ means—

(a) a person who is the holder of a valid entry permit (other than a temporary entry permit); or

(b) a person who, having departed from Australia, was the holder of a valid entry permit (other than a temporary entry permit) immediately prior to that departure;

 

‘resident return visa’ means a visa granted to a resident with respect to travel to Australia on a single occasion or on any number of occasions with a view to enabling the resident to obtain an entry permit (other than a temporary entry permit) upon his or her arrival in Australia.

“(2) The fee payable in respect of an application for a resident return visa is—

(a) if the application is lodged in Australia—$50; or

(b) if the application is lodged outside Australia—$60.”.

 

NOTE

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 22 December 1986.

2. Statutory Rules 1959 No. 35 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1986 No. 117 and see also