Passport Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1976 No. 68

REGULATIONS UNDER THE PASSPORTS ACT 1938-1973.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Passports Act 1938-1973.

Dated this nineteenth day of February, 1976.

John R. Kerr

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

(Sgd) Andrew Peacock

Minister of State for Foreign Affairs.

Amendments of the. Passport Regulations 

Fees.

1. Regulation 13 of the Passport Regulations is amended by omitting from paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (2) the word “ Australian ” (wherever occurring) and substituting the word “ Commonwealth ”.

Schedule.

2. The Schedule to the Passport Regulations is amended by omitting from Part I the words—

“ For the issue of an Australian passport................... $10 ”

and substituting the words—

“ For the issue of an Australian passport................... $20 ”.

Application.

3. The amendment of the Schedule to the Passport Regulations effected by regulation 2 applies to the issue of an Australian passport for which application is made on or after 23 February 1976.

* Notified in the Australian Government Gazette on 23 February 1976.

  Statutory Rules 1939, No. 17, as amended by Statutory Rules 1945, No. 183; 1948, No. 52; 1949, Nos. 7 and 41; 1952, No. 67; 1956, No. 45; 1966, No. 100; 1969, No. 80; and 1974, No. 181.

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