Passport Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1966 No. 100

REGULATIONS UNDER THE PASSPORTS ACT 1938-1948.*

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 Passports Act 1938-1948.

Dated this twenty-second day of June, 1966.

CASEY

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Amendments of the Passport Regulations 

Commencement.

1. These Regulations shall come into operation on the first day of July, 1966.

Renewal of passports.

2. Regulation 7 of the Passport Regulations is amended—

(a) by inserting after the words “ British passport ” the words “ , other than an Australian passport,”; and

(b) by inserting after sub-regulation (1.) the following sub-regulation:—

“ (1a.) An authorized officer may, from time to time, renew an Australian passport by extending the date on which the validity of the passport will expire to a date specified by him in the passport, not being a date that is more than five years after the date on which the passport was issued.”.

The Schedule.

3.—(1.) The Schedule to the Passport Regulations is amended by omitting Part I. and Part II. and inserting in their stead the following Parts:—

Part I.

For the issue of an Australian passport...............................	Four dollars
For the renewal of a British passport..................................	Twenty cents for each year of renewal
For the endorsement of a British passport made after issue of the passport......................................................................	Twenty cents
For the issue of a certificate of identity..............................	Two dollars
For the issue of a document of identity..............................	One dollar
For the renewal of a certificate of identity..........................	Twenty cents for each year or part of a year of renewal
For the renewal of a document of identity..........................	Twenty cents for each year or part of a year of renewal

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 30 June. 1966.

  Statutory Rules 1939, No. 47 as amended by Statutory Rules 1945, No. 183; 1948, No. 52; 1949, Nos. 7 and 41; 1952, No. 67; and 1956, No. 45.

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Part II.—Visé Fees Payable in Australia.

For a visé on a passport—

(a) in the case of a transit visé	Twenty cents
(b) in the case of a visé other than a transit visé	Eighty cents

(2.) Notwithstanding the last preceding sub-regulation the fee for the issue of a passport, where the application was made before the commencement of these regulations, is Two dollars.

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