Migration Regulations 1994

PAYMENT OF VISA APPLICATION CHARGES AND FEES IN FOREIGN CURRENCIES

(REGULATION 5.36(1a)(a))

I, AMANDA VANSTONE, Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs, acting under regulation 1.17 and paragraph 5.36(1A)(a) of the Migration Regulations 1994 (‘the Regulations’)

1. REVOKE the Gazette Notice made on 21 June 2005 for the purposes of paragraph 5.36(1A)(a) of the Regulations; and

2. SPECIFY in the Schedule, for paragraph 5.36(1A)(a) of the Regulations, the amounts in foreign currencies which correspond to the amounts payable for a fee in Australian dollars.

This notice takes effect on and from 1 January 2006.

Dated 8 December 2005

AMANDA VANSTONE

Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs

[NOTE 1: Regulation 1.17 provides that the Minister may, by notice published in the Gazette, specify matters required by individual provisions of the Regulations to be specified for the purposes of those provisions.

NOTE 2: Regulation 5.36 deals with the payment of visa application charges, and fees, in foreign currencies. Subregulation 5.36(1A) provides that the amount of the payment of a fee is ascertained, if the currency in which the amount is to be paid is a currency for which an amount corresponding to the amount of the fee in Australian dollars is specified for the purposes of paragraph 5.36(1A)(a) by Gazette Notice, in accordance with the amount specified in the Gazette Notice that corresponds to the amount of the fee in Australian dollars.]