Migration (Collection of Registration Status Charge) Instrument (LIN 20/225) 2020
I, Jason Wood, Assistant Minister for Customs, Community Safety and Multicultural Affairs, make the following instrument.
Dated 6 October 2020
Jason Wood
Assistant Minister for Customs, Community Safety and Multicultural Affairs
(1) This instrument is the Migration (Collection of Registration Status Charge) Instrument (LIN 20/225) 2020.
(2) This instrument may be cited as LIN 20/225.
This instrument commences on 15 October 2020.
3 Authority
This instrument is made under subsection 332A(1) of the Act.
Note: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in section 275 of the Act, including the following:
(a) Migration Agents Registration Authority;
(b) registered migration agent;
(c) registration application;
(d) registration status charge.
In this instrument:
Act means the Migration Act 1958.
Authority means the Migration Agents Registration Authority.
begins has the same meaning as in section 3 of the Migration Agents Registration Application Charge Act 1997.
immigration assistance has same meaning as in Part 3 of the Act.
In accordance with subsection 33(3) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901, the instrument Determination of the Collection of the Registration Status Charge (IMMI 14/027) is repealed.
6 Collection of registration status charge
The registration status charge is due and payable on the earlier of the following times:
(a) immediately after the registered migration agent (the agent) notifies the Migration Agents Registration Authority that the agent has begun to give immigration assistance otherwise than on a non-commercial basis; or
(b) the start of the day after 14 days of the agent giving immigration assistance otherwise than on a non-commercial basis.
7 Application of this instrument
This instrument applies in relation to the imposition of a registration status charge in respect of an agent’s current period of registration resulting from a registration application made on or after 15 October 2020.