Commonwealth legislation

Migration (Health Services) Charge Regulations

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Jurisdiction

Commonwealth

Act Number

97 of 1992

Collection

legislative instrument

Plain English Summary

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These Regulations set out when you can get a refund of the health services charge you paid for an Australian visa.

Who this affects: Anyone who paid the health services charge (a fee for potential future health costs) when applying for a visa.

When you get your money back: You are entitled to a refund if:

Your visa is cancelled and you didn't travel to Australia using that visa before it was cancelled; or
Your visa expires and you didn't travel to Australia using that visa before it expired.

In plain terms: If you paid the charge but never actually came to Australia because your visa was cancelled or expired first, you get the fee refunded.

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Migration (Health Services) Charge Regulations

Statutory Rules 1992 No. 971

__________________

Migration (Health Services) Charge Regulations

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Migration Act 1958.

Dated 7 April 1992.

BILL HAYDEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

GERRY HAND

Minister of State for Immigration, Local

Government and Ethnic Affairs

____________

Citation

These Regulations may be cited as the Migration (Health Services) Charge Regulations.

[NOTE: These Regulations commence on gazettal: see Acts Interpretation Act 1901, s. 48]

Interpretation

In these Regulations:

“charge” has the same meaning as in the Migration (Health Services) Charge Act 1991.

Refund of charge

A charge paid by a person to whom a visa has been issued is to be refunded:

(a) if:

(i) the visa is cancelled; and

(ii) the person does not travel to Australia in reliance on that visa before the visa is cancelled; or

(b) if:

(i) the visa expires; and

(ii) the person does not travel to Australia in reliance on that visa before the visa expires.

NOTE

Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 14 April 1992.

Source text

Sourced from the Federal Register of Legislation (legislation.gov.au), CC BY 4.0.

1 Migration (Health Services) Charge Regulations

Statutory Rules 1992 No. 971

__________________

Migration (Health Services) Charge Regulations

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Migration Act 1958.

Dated 7 April 1992.

BILL HAYDEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

GERRY HAND

Minister of State for Immigration, Local

Government and Ethnic Affairs

____________

Citation

These Regulations may be cited as the Migration (Health Services) Charge Regulations.

[NOTE: These Regulations commence on gazettal: see Acts Interpretation Act 1901, s. 48]

Interpretation

In these Regulations:

“charge” has the same meaning as in the Migration (Health Services) Charge Act 1991.

Refund of charge

A charge paid by a person to whom a visa has been issued is to be refunded:

(a) if:

(i) the visa is cancelled; and

(ii) the person does not travel to Australia in reliance on that visa before the visa is cancelled; or

(b) if:

(i) the visa expires; and

(ii) the person does not travel to Australia in reliance on that visa before the visa expires.

NOTE

Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 14 April 1992.