Migration Agents Registration Application Charge Amendment Regulations 2004 (No. 1)1
Statutory Rules 2004 No. 1302
I, PHILIP MICHAEL JEFFERY, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Migration Agents Registration Application Charge Act 1997.
Dated 10 June 2004
P. M. JEFFERY
Governor-General
By His Excellency’s Command
GARY HARDGRAVE
Minister for Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs

1	Name of Regulations
		These Regulations are the Migration Agents Registration Application Charge Amendment Regulations 2004 (No. 1).
2	Commencement
		These Regulations commence on the commencement of Schedule 1 to the Migration Agents Registration Application Charge Amendment Act 2004.
3	Amendment of Migration Agents Registration Application Charge Regulations 1998
		Schedule 1 amends the Migration Agents Registration Application Charge Regulations 1998.

Schedule 1	Amendment
(regulation 3)
  
[1]	After regulation 5
insert
6	Day when registered migration agent begins working on a commercial basis
		For subsection 9 (3) of the Act, a registered migration agent begins to give immigration assistance on a commercial basis on the earlier of:
	(a)	the day on which the agent gives a client an estimate of fees before starting work on behalf of the client; and
	(b)	the day on which the agent charges a client a fee for services provided.

Notes
1.	These Regulations amend Statutory Rules 1998 No. 34, as amended by 1998 No. 282; 1999 No. 89; 2000 No. 65; 2001 No. 144; 2003 No. 93.
2.	Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 18 June 2004.