Migration (Visa Pre‑application Process) Charge Amendment (Work and Holiday Visa) Regulations 2024 (Cth)

Migration (Visa Pre‑application Process) Charge Amendment (Work and Holiday Visa) Regulations 2024

I, the Honourable Frances Adamson AC, Administrator of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 29 August 2024

Frances Adamson AC

Administrator

By Her Excellency’s Command

Tony Burke

Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs

Contents

1Name

This instrument is the Migration (Visa Pre‑application Process) Charge Amendment (Work and Holiday Visa) Regulations 2024.

2Commencement

1. (1)

   Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1. The whole of this instrument	16 September 2024.	16 September 2024

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

1. (2)

   Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3Authority

This instrument is made under the Migration (Visa Pre‑application Process) Charge Act 2023.

4Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1Amendments

Migration (Visa Pre‑application Process) Charge Regulations 2024

1

At the end of Part 2

Add:

6AAmount of charge—Subclass 462 (Work and Holiday) visa

The amount of charge payable for each registration of a person as a registered participant in a visa pre‑application process in relation to a Subclass 462 (Work and Holiday) visa is $25.

Note: If the charge is not paid at the time of registration, the person is taken never to have been registered: see subsection 46C(22) of the Migration Act 1958.

2

At the end of Part 3

Add:

Division 2—Other application, saving and transitional provisions

8Application provision—Subclass 462 (Work and Holiday) visa

Section 6A of this instrument applies in relation to registrations occurring on or after the commencement of that section.