EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
Statutory Rules No. 223 of 1986
Australian Citizenship Regulations (Amendment)
Issued by the Authority of the
Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affair
Section 53 of the Australian Citizenship Act 1948 (the Act), so far as is relevant, prescribes that the Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with the Act, prescribing all matters required or permitted by the Act to be prescribed including regulations providing for the imposition and recovery of fees in respect of:
• any application under the Act;
• any registration, the making of any declaration, the grant of any certificate granted under the Act.
The amending regulations increase the fee payable upon lodgement of an application for registration of citizenship by descent, from $25 to $50. Details of the amending regulations are as follows:
• regulation 1 provided that this amendment would come into operation on 1 September 1986;
• regulation 2 increased the fee payable upon lodgement of an application for registration of citizenship by descent by omitting $25 and substituting $50.