Passport Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1949. No..

 

REGULATION 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 Regulation under the Passports Act 1938-1948.

Dated this twenty-ninth day of June, 1949.

W. J. McKell

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Immigration.

 

Amendment of the Passport Regulations. 

1. Regulation 10 of the Passport Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead :—

Documents of identity.

“ 10. An authorized officer may issue a document of identity for travel purposes to a person who claims to be a British subject in any case where, in the opinion of the Minister or an authorized officer, it is unnecessary or undesirable to issue an Australian passport to that person.”.

The Schedule.

2. The Schedule to the Passport Regulations is amended by adding at the end of Part II. the following words :—

“For the issue of a document of identity............................. Ten shillings.”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on   , 1948.

  Statutory Rules 1939, No. 47, as amended by Statutory Rules 1945, No. 183; 1948, No. 52; and 1949, No. 7.

 

By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.

2463.—Price 3d. 8/1.6.1949.