Migration Act 1958 - Determination under section 175A - Eligible Passports - October 2012

I, MARTIN BOWLES, Acting Secretary to the Department of Immigration and Citizenship, acting under section 175A of the Migration Act 1958 (the ‘Act’):

1. REVOKE Instrument number IMMI 07/030 signed on 24 August 2007 determining eligible passports for the purposes of section 175A; AND

2. DETERMINE that for the purposes of section 165 of the Act, the following kinds of passports are ‘eligible passports’:

(a) Australian ePassports; and

(b) New Zealand ePassports; and

(c) United States of America ePassports.

This Instrument, IMMI 12/102, will commence on 1 November 2012.

Dated   12 October  2012

   Martin Bowles

Acting 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.]