Migration Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1966 No. 86

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE MIGRATION ACT 1958-1964.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Migration Act 1958-1964.

Dated this twenty-ninth day of April, 1966.

CASEY

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Immigration.

 

Amendments of the Migration Regulations 

Witnesses’ fees.

1. Regulation 12 of the Migration Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (1.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation:—

“(1.) A person who attends to give evidence before a Commissioner shall, in respect of that attendance, be paid such fees and allowances as the Commissioner thinks fit to allow in accordance with the scale prescribed from time to time, for the purposes of section 27 of the Public Works Committee Act 1913-1965, by the Public Works Committee Regulations.”.

Maximum fee chargeable by Immigration agents.

2. Regulation 29 of the Migration Regulations is amended by omitting the words “One pound” and inserting in their stead the words “Two dollars”.

Offences.

3. Regulation 31 of the Migration Regulations is amended by omitting the words “Fifty pounds” and inserting in their stead the words “One hundred dollars”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 5 May 1966.

  Statutory Rules 1959, No. 35, as amended by Statutory Rules 1959, No. 89; and 1964, No. 158.

 

By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra

2321/66.—Price 5c (6d.) 10/1.4.1966