# Migration Regulations 1994 - Specification under paragraph 2.40(1)(n) - Transit Passengers who are Eligible for a Special Purpose Visa - June 2012

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TRANSIT PASSENGERS WHO ARE ELIGIBLE FOR A SPECIAL PURPOSE VISA (Paragraph 2.40(1)(n))
I, CHRIS BOWEN, Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, acting under paragraph 2.40(l)(n) of the Migration Regulations 1994 (‘the Regulations’):
• REVOKE Instrument number IMMI 09/064, signed on 4 February 2010 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 12/072, commences on 8 June 2012. 
Dated  7 June 2012
CHRIS BOWEN
Minister for Immigration and Citizenship
[NOTE 1: Paragraph 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.
NOTE 2: Subsection 56(1) of the Legislative Instruments Act 2003 provides that if the enabling legislation in relation to a legislative instrument as in force at any time before the commencing day of that Act (1 January 2005) required the text of the instrument, or particulars of its making, to be published in the Gazette, the requirement for publication in the Gazette is taken, in relation to any such instrument made on or after that day, to be satisfied if the instrument is registered]

SCHEDULE
(a) Citizens of the following foreign countries:
	Andorra
	Japan
	Republic of Marshall Islands

	Argentina
	Kiribati
	Samoa

	Austria
	Latvia
	San Marino

	Belgium
	Liechtenstein
	Singapore

	Brunei
	Lithuania
	Slovakia

	Canada
	Luxembourg
	Slovenia

	Cyprus
	Malaysia
	Solomon Islands

	Czech Republic
	Malta
	South Korea

	Denmark
	Mexico
	Spain

	Estonia
	Monaco
	Sweden

	Federated States of Micronesia
	Nauru
	Switzerland

	Fiji
	Netherlands
	Thailand

	Finland
	New Zealand
	Tonga

	France
	Norway
	Tuvalu

	Germany
	Palau
	United Arab Emirates

	Greece
	Oman
	United Kingdom (including its colonies)

	Hungary
	Papua New Guinea

	Iceland
	Philippines
	United States of America

	Indonesia
	Poland
	Vanuatu

	Ireland
	Portugal
	Vatican

	Italy
	Republic of South Africa

(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
	Russian Federation

	Algeria
	Kuwait
	Saudi Arabia

	Angola
	Lebanon
	Sierra Leone

	Bahrain
	Libya
	Somalia

	Bosnia and Herzegovina
	Madagascar
	Sudan

	Comoros
	Mauritania
	Syria

	Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
	Morocco
	Tunisia

	Egypt
	Pakistan
	Zimbabwe

	Iran
	Qatar

	Iraq
	Republic of Yemen