Migration Act 1958 - Determination of Eligible Passports - IMMI 13/158

I, ELIZABETH COSSON, Acting Secretary of the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, acting under section 175A of the Migration Act 1958 (the ‘Act’):

1. REVOKE Instrument number IMMI 13/139 signed on 6 November 2013 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) Singaporean ePassports; and

(d) Swiss ePassports; and

(e) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ePassports; and

(f) United States of America ePassports

This Instrument, IMMI 13/158, commences on 24 February 2014.

Dated   7 February 2014

ELIZABETH COSSON

Acting Secretary of the Department of Immigration and Border Protection