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

                                             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”:

1. Australian ePassports; and
2. 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.]