Passports Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1989 No. 391

Passports Regulations2 (Amendment)

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

Dated 13 March 1989.

BILL HAYDEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

Michael Duffy

Minister of State for Trade Negotiations for and on behalf of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Trade

 

Applications for Australian passports

1. Regulation 5 of the Passports Regulations is amended by omitting subregulation (1) and substituting the following subregulation:

“(1) An application for:

(a) an Australian passport, a certificate of identity or a document of identity for travel purposes;

(b) the endorsement of an Australian passport; or

(c) the renewal or endorsement of a certificate of identity or a document of identity for travel purposes:

shall be in accordance with a form approved by the Minister.”.

Validity of Australian passports

2. Regulation 7 of the Passports Regulations is amended by omitting subregulations (2) and (3).

Endorsement of Australian passport, etc.

3. Regulation 11 of the Passports Regulations is amended:

(a) by omitting paragraph (4) (a);

 

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(b) by adding at the end the following subregulation:

“(5) For the purposes of subregulation (2) or (3), an authorised officer may endorse a certificate of identity or a document of identity to reduce the period of its validity.”.

Review of decisions

4. Regulation 14 of the Passports Regulations is amended:

(a) by omitting subparagraph (ii) from the definition of “reviewable decision” in subregulation (1);

(b) by omitting “passport” from subparagraph (vii) of that definition and substituting “passport, a certificate of identity or a document of identity for travel purposes”;

(c) by omitting “passport” from subparagraph (viii) of that definition and substituting “passport, a certificate of identity or a document of identity for travel purposes”.

Schedule 1

5. Schedule 1 to the Passports Regulations is amended by omitting “Fiji”.

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 17 March 1989.

2. Statutory Rules 1939 No. 47 as amended by 1945 No. 183; 1948 No. 52; 1949 Nos. 7 and 41; 1952 No. 67; 1956 No. 45; 1966 No. 100; 1969 No. 80; 1974 No. 181; 1976 No. 68; 1979 No. 80; 1981 No. 245; 1983 No. 37; 1985 No. 277; 1986 Nos. 25 and 212; 1987 No. 217; 1988 No. 147.

 

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