Migration Agents Registration Application Charge Amendment Act 2002

No. 34, 2002

An Act to amend the Migration Agents Registration Application Charge Act 1997, and for related purposes

Contents

1 Short title...................................

2 Commencement...............................

3 Schedule(s)..................................

Schedule 1—Amendment of the Migration Agents Registration Application Charge Act 1997

Migration Agents Registration Application Charge Amendment Act 2002

No. 34, 2002

An Act to amend the Migration Agents Registration Application Charge Act 1997, and for related purposes

[Assented to 26 June 2002]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1  Short title

  This Act may be cited as the Migration Agents Registration Application Charge Amendment Act 2002.

2  Commencement

  This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

3  Schedule(s)

  Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendment of the Migration Agents Registration Application Charge Act 1997

1  Subsection 7(1)

Omit “1998 is $1,100”, substitute “2002 is $1,800”.

2  Application—section 7 of the Migration Agents Registration Application Charge Act 1997

Despite the amendment of section 7 of the Migration Agents Registration Application Charge Act 1997 made by this Schedule, that section continues to apply, in relation to registration applications made in:

 (a) the financial year that began on 1 July 2000; or

 (b) an earlier financial year;

as if that amendment had not been made.

3  Transitional—section 7 of the Migration Agents Registration Application Charge Act 1997

To avoid doubt, the amount of charge payable for the making of a registration application during the period:

 (a) beginning on 1 July 2001; and

 (b) ending immediately before the commencement of this item;

must not exceed the amount that would have been the charge limit for the financial year that began on 1 July 2001 if the amendment of section 7 of the Migration Agents Registration Application Charge Act 1997 made by this Schedule had not been made.

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 14 February 2002

Senate on 19 June 2002]