EXPLANATORY STATEMENT PASSPORTS ACT 1938
PASSPORTS REGULATIONS (AMENDMENTS)
Statutory Rules 1987 217 issued by the authority of the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Section 12 of the Passports Act 1938 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with the Act, prescribing all matters which are required or permitted to be prescribed, or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed, for carrying out or giving effect to the Act.
2. On 21 August 1987 the Expenditure Review Committee of Cabinet agreed in Decision No. 9829 (ERC) that the fee for the issue of passports should be indexed to the Consumer Price Index with the base fees being the fees prescribed from time to time. The first increases are proposed to have effect on and from 1 October 1987, based on the Consumer Price Index up to 31 March 1987 and on the base fees of $60 for a passport issued to an adult and $25 for a passport issued to a prescribed minor. Thereafter annual increases each 1 July, based on the Consumer Price Index up to the preceding 31 March are proposed.
3. There have been changes to Schedule 2 of the Passports Regulations, setting out the fees to be levied for passports for the period 1 October 1987 to 1 July 1988.
4. It is proposed that these changes be brought into effect on and from 1 October 1987 as part of the Budget package.
5. The regulations enclosed herewith have been prepared to amend Statutory Rules 1939 No. 47 as previously amended by Statutory Rules 1986 No. 25 and 212.
Statutory Rules 1987.