Migration Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1986 No. 3171

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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 22 October 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 November 1986.

2. After regulation 29d of the Migration Regulations the following regulation is inserted:

Refund of fees

“29e. Where a fee is paid by a person, whether before or after the commencement of this regulation, in respect of an application for an entry permit, a visa or a return endorsement and the application is, for any reason, unnecessary or is made as a result of a mistake made by the person or the Department, the person is entitled to a refund of an amount equal to the amount of the fee so paid.”.

 

NOTE

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 30 October 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