Passports Regulations 1930 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1937. No. 43.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE PASSPORTS ACT 1920.*

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 1920.

Dated this twenty-first day of April, 1937.

(SGD.) GOWRIE.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for the Interior.

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Amendment of Passports Regulations. 

Definitions.

1. Regulation two of the Passports Regulations is amended by omitting the definition of “Transit visé” and inserting in its stead the following definition:—

“Transit visé” means a visé which is valid for one or more direct journeys through a country specified in the visé for the purpose of reaching another country specified in the visé;”.

2. Regulations twenty-two and twenty-three of the Passports Regulations are repealed and the following regulation inserted in their stead:—

Fees on application for a visé or indorsement of a passport.

“22.—(1.) An application for a visé or indorsement may be in accordance with Form G and shall be accompanied by—

(a) the prescribed fee; and

(b)in the case of a passport, other than a passport issued under the Act, one unmounted photograph of the applicant.

“(2.) The fees payable in respect of a visé or indorsement of a British or foreign passport shall be as follows:—

(a) For a transit visé—Two shillings;

(b)For an indorsement of a British passport made after the issue of that passport—Four shillings; and

(c) For a visé (other than a transit visé)—Eight shillings.

“(3.) For the purpose of this regulation, ‘passport’ includes a certificate of identity or other official document issued in lieu of a passport.”.

Amendment of the Schedule.

3. The Schedule to the Passports Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from Form G the Note to Item 7 (a); and

(b) by omitting from Item 7 (c) in that Form the word “Two” and inserting in its stead the word “Four”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on  , 1937

  Statutory Rules 1930, No. 155, as amended by Statutory Rules 1931, No. 40, and 1932, No. 101.

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

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