# Migration Act 1958 - Determination under section 175A - Eligible Passports - August 2007

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Commonwealth of Australia
Migration Act 1958
ELIGIBLE PASSPORTS
(SECTION 175A)
I, ANDREW METCALFE, Secretary to the Department of Immigration and Citizenship, acting under subsection 175A:
DETERMINE that for the purposes of section 165, the following kinds of passports are “eligible passports”:
• Australian ePassports; and
• New Zealand ePassports.

This Instrument, IMMI 07/030 will take effect 27 August 2007.
Dated  24 August 2007
ANDREW METCALFE
Secretary to the Department of Immigration and Citizenship
[NOTE 1:   Section 165 of the Act provides that ‘eligible passport’ means a passport of a kind specified in a determination under section 175A.
NOTE 2: Section 166 provides, relevantly, that a person who holds an eligible passport may, in certain circumstances, be immigration cleared via an authorised system, rather than an immigration clearance officer.
NOTE 3:  Section 175A provides that for the purposes of Division 5 of Part 2, which deals with immigration clearance, the Minister or the Secretary may determine, by legislative instrument, that a specified kind of passport is an eligible passport.]