Migration Agents Registration Application Charge Amendment Regulations 2005 (No. 1)1

Select Legislative Instrument 2005 No. 132

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 15 June 2005

P. M. JEFFERY

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command

AMANDA VANSTONE

Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs

1 Name of Regulations

  These Regulations are the Migration Agents Registration Application Charge Amendment Regulations 2005 (No. 1).

2 Commencement

  These Regulations commence on 1 July 2005.

3 Amendment of Migration Agents Registration Application Charge Regulations 1998

  Schedule 1 amends the Migration Agents Registration Application Charge Regulations 1998.

4 Transitional

  The amendment made by item 1 of Schedule 1 applies in relation to an application for repeat registration made on or after 1 July 2005.

Schedule 1 Amendments

(regulation 3)

[1] Paragraph 4 (2) (b)

omit

1 July 2003 is $1 050.

insert

1 July 2005 is $1 595.

[2] Regulation 6

omit

earlier

insert

earliest

[3] Paragraph 6 (b)

omit

provided.

insert

provided; and

[4] After paragraph 6 (b)

insert

 (c) the day on which the agent becomes a person associated with an organisation that gives immigration assistance on a commercial, or for-profit, basis; and

 (d) the day on which the agent becomes a member of an organisation that gives immigration assistance on a commercial, or for-profit, basis.

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