{"id":"C2004A04378","name":"Migration Agents Registration (Renewal) Levy Act 1992","slug":"migration-agents-registration-renewal-levy-act-1992","collection":"act","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":"87 of 1992","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":7750,"registerId":"commonwealth-C2004A04378-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-03-30","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Short title [see Note 1]","content":"##### 1 Short title \\[see Note 1\\]\n\n  This Act may be cited as the Migration Agents Registration (Renewal) Levy Act 1992.","sortOrder":0},{"sectionNumber":"2","sectionType":"section","heading":"Commencement [see Note 1]","content":"##### 2 Commencement \\[see Note 1\\]\n\n  This Act commences on the day on which the Migration Amendment Act (No 3) 1992 commences.","sortOrder":1},{"sectionNumber":"3","sectionType":"section","heading":"Interpretation","content":"##### 3 Interpretation\n\n  In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:\n\n> entrance applicant, immigration assistance, immigration case, paid immigration assistance and registered agent have the same meanings as in Part 2A of the Migration Act 1958.","sortOrder":2},{"sectionNumber":"4","sectionType":"section","heading":"Imposition of levy","content":"##### 4 Imposition of levy\n\n  Levy is imposed on the renewal of an individual’s registration as a registered agent.","sortOrder":3},{"sectionNumber":"5","sectionType":"section","heading":"Exemption","content":"##### 5 Exemption\n\n  Levy is not imposed on the renewal of the registration of a registered agent who gives immigration assistance to entrance applicants only in his or her capacity as an employee of, or a voluntary worker for, a person or organisation that does not charge entrance applicants a fee, nor require any other reward from them, for the giving of such assistance.","sortOrder":4},{"sectionNumber":"6","sectionType":"section","heading":"Amount of levy","content":"##### 6 Amount of levy\n\n  (1) The amount of levy payable in respect of a registration renewed in a financial year starting on or after 1 July 1995 is, subject to subsection (3), the amount worked out under the formula:\n\n![](image.002.png)\n\n  where:\n\n> new CGFCE number means the number worked out as follows:\n\n(a) take the first set of Commonwealth Government Final Consumption Expenditure Implicit Price Deflators to be issued by the Department of Finance after 1 January in the previous financial year;\n\n(b) find the number that relates to the period ending on 31 December in the previous financial year;\n\n(c) that number is the new CGFCE number.\n\n> base CGFCE number means the number worked out as follows:\n\n(a) take the first set of Commonwealth Government Final Consumption Expenditure Implicit Price Deflators to be issued by the Department of Finance after 1 January in the previous financial year;\n\n(b) find the number that relates to the period ending on 31 December 1993;\n\n(c) that number is the base CGFCE number.\n\n> relevant base rate means the base rate applicable under subsection (2) to the renewal of the registration.\n\n  (2) The base rate applicable to a renewal of a registration is as follows:\n\n(a) if, at the time of the renewal, the individual whose registration is renewed proposes to give immigration assistance in the capacity of an employee of a registered agent, an employee of a partnership at least one of whose members is a registered agent, or an employee of a corporation at least one of whose executive officers is a registered agent, then:\n\n(i) if he or she also proposes at that time to give during the period for which the registration is continued, and during that period gives, paid immigration assistance in no more than 5 cases—$50; or\n\n(ii) if subparagraph (i) does not apply—$525;\n\n(b) if the individual whose registration is renewed is not proposing, at the time of that renewal, to give immigration assistance in any of the capacities mentioned in paragraph (a), then:\n\n(i) if he or she proposes at that time to give during the period for which the registration is continued, and during that period gives, paid immigration assistance in no more than 5 cases—$105; or\n\n(ii) if subparagraph (i) does not apply—$1,050.\n\n  (3) If an amount worked out under the formula in subsection (1) is not a multiple of $5, the amount is to be rounded as follows:\n\n(a) if the amount exceeds the nearest lower multiple of $5 by $2.50 or more—round the amount up to the nearest higher multiple of $5;\n\n(b) in any other case—round the amount down to the nearest lower multiple of $5.","sortOrder":5},{"sectionNumber":"7","sectionType":"section","heading":"By whom the levy is payable","content":"##### 7 By whom the levy is payable\n\n  Levy is payable by the individual whose registration is renewed.","sortOrder":6}],"analysis":null,"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/migration-agents-registration-renewal-levy-act-1992","history":"/api/acts/migration-agents-registration-renewal-levy-act-1992/history","analysis":"/api/acts/migration-agents-registration-renewal-levy-act-1992/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/migration-agents-registration-renewal-levy-act-1992/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/migration-agents-registration-renewal-levy-act-1992/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/migration-agents-registration-renewal-levy-act-1992/documents"}}