# Migration Regulations 1994 - Specification under regulation 2.40(1)(n) - Transit Passengers who are eligible for a Special Purpose Visa - February 2010

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TRANSIT PASSENGERS WHO ARE ELIGIBLE FOR A SPECIAL PURPOSE VISA (REGULATION 2.40(1)(n))
I, CHRIS EVANS, Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, acting under paragraph 2.40(l)(n) of the Migration Regulations 1994 (‘the Regulations’);
• REVOKE the Instrument signed on 13 October 2005 specifying transit passengers for the purposes of paragraph 2.40(1)(n) of the Regulations; AND

2.      SPECIFY each class of persons specified in clauses (a) to (d) of the schedule to this instrument as a class of persons for the purposes of paragraph 2.40(1)(n) of the Regulations.
This Instrument, IMMI 09/064, commences on the day after registration on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments. 
Dated 4 February 2010
CHRIS EVANS
Minister for Immigration and Citizenship
[NOTE 1: Regulation 2.40(1)(n) of the Regulations provides that transit passengers who belong to a class of persons specified by Gazette Notice are prescribed as having a Special Purpose Visa for the purposes of section 33(2)(a) of the Migration Act 1958.]

SCHEDULE
(a) Citizens of the following foreign countries:
	Andorra
	Italy
	Republic of South Africa

	Argentina
	Japan
	Republic of Marshall Islands

	Austria
	Kiribati
	Samoa

	Belgium
	Latvia
	San Marino

	Brunei
	Liechtenstein
	Singapore

	Canada
	Lithuania
	Slovakia

	Cyprus
	Luxembourg
	Slovenia

	Czech Republic
	Malaysia
	Solomon Islands

	Denmark
	Malta
	South Korea

	Estonia
	Mexico
	Spain

	Federated States of Micronesia
	Monaco
	Sweden

	Fiji
	Nauru
	Switzerland

	Finland
	Netherlands
	Thailand

	France
	New Zealand
	Tonga

	Germany
	Norway
	Tuvalu

	Greece
	Palau
	United Arab Emirates

	Hungary
	Papua New Guinea
	United Kingdom (including its colonies)

	Iceland
	Philippines
	United States of America

	Indonesia
	Poland
	Vanuatu

	Ireland
	Portugal
	Vatican

(b) Residents of Hong Kong holding Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) passports or British National Overseas (BNO) passports.
(c) Residents of Taiwan holding a passport issued by the authorities of Taiwan (other than passports purported to be official or diplomatic passports).
(d) Diplomatic passport holders, excluding holders of:
Arab Non-National Passports; and
Diplomatic passports from the following foreign countries:
	Afghanistan
	Jordan
	Republic of Yemen

	Algeria
	Kuwait
	Russian Federation

	Angola
	Lebanon
	Saudi Arabia

	Bahrain
	Libya
	Sierra Leone

	Bosnia and Herzegovina
	Madagascar
	Somalia

	Comoros
	Mauritania
	Sudan

	Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
	Morocco
	Syria

	Egypt
	Oman
	Tunisia

	Iran
	Pakistan
	Zimbabwe

	Iraq
	Qatar