Australian Citizenship Amendment (Concession Codes and Payment of Fees) Regulations 2019

I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 21 February 2019

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

David Coleman

Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Part 1—Concession codes

Australian Citizenship Regulation 2016

Part 2—Payment of Fees

Australian Citizenship Regulation 2016

1  Name

  This instrument is the Australian Citizenship Amendment (Concession Codes and Payment of Fees) Regulations 2019.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under the Australian Citizenship Act 2007.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Part 1—Concession codes

Australian Citizenship Regulation 2016

1  In the appropriate position in Part 4

Insert:

23  Application of amendment made by Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Australian Citizenship Amendment (Concession Codes and Payment of Fees) Regulations 2019

  The amendment of Schedule 3 made by item 2 of Schedule 1 to the Australian Citizenship Amendment (Concession Codes and Payment of Fees) Regulations 2019 applies in relation to an application made on or after 2 March 2019.

2  Schedule 3 (table item 10, column 1, subparagraph (a)(ii))

Repeal the subparagraph, substitute:

(ii) a pensioner concession card issued by the Human Services Department and endorsed by that Department with one of the following codes: AGE; AGE BLIND; CAR; DSP; DSP BLIND; NS; PPP; PA; SA; SL; WA; WFA; WFD; WID; YAL; and

Part 2—Payment of Fees

Australian Citizenship Regulation 2016

3  Subsection 16(7)

Repeal the subsection, substitute:

 (7) In this section:

conversion instrument means the Migration (LIN 19/041: Payment of Visa Application Charges and Fees in Foreign Currencies) Instrument 2019 made for the purposes of paragraph 5.36(1A)(a) of the Migration Regulations 1994 and as in force on 1 July 2019.

places and currencies instrument means the Migration (LIN 19/042: Places and Currencies for Paying of Fees) Instrument 2019 made for the purposes of paragraphs 5.36(1)(a) and (b) of the Migration Regulations 1994 and as in force on 1 July 2019.

4  In the appropriate position in Part 4

Insert:

24  Application of amendment made by Part 2 of Schedule 1 to the Australian Citizenship Amendment (Concession Codes and Payment of Fees) Regulations 2019

  The amendment of section 16 made by item 3 of Schedule 1 to the Australian Citizenship Amendment (Concession Codes and Payment of Fees) Regulations 2019 applies in relation to an application made on or after 1 July 2019.