Migration (Visa Pre‑application Process) Charge Regulations 2024

I, General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated   14 March 2024

David Hurley

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Andrew Giles

Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs

Contents

Part 1—Preliminary

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Definitions

Part 2—Amounts of charge

5 Purpose of this Part

6 Amount of charge—Subclass 192 (Pacific Engagement) visa

Part 3—Application, saving and transitional provisions

Division 1—Application, saving and transitional provisions in relation to the commencement of this instrument

7 Application provision—Subclass 192 (Pacific Engagement) visa

Part 1—Preliminary

1  Name

  This instrument is the Migration (Visa Pre‑application Process) Charge Regulations 2024.

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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 Migration (Visa Pre‑application Process) Charge Act 2023.

4  Definitions

Note: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in the Act, including charge.

  In this instrument:

Act means the Migration (Visa Pre‑application Process) Charge Act 2023.

Part 2—Amounts of charge

5  Purpose of this Part

  For the purposes of subsection 8(1) of the Act, this Part sets out the amount of charge payable for the registration of a person as a registered participant in a visa pre‑application process conducted under subsection 46C(1) of the Migration Act 1958.

6  Amount of charge—Subclass 192 (Pacific Engagement) visa

  The amount of charge payable for each registration of a person as a registered participant in a visa pre‑application process in relation to a Subclass 192 (Pacific Engagement) visa is $25.

Note: If the charge is not paid at the time of registration, the person is taken never to have been registered: see subsection 46C(22) of the Migration Act 1958.

Part 3—Application, saving and transitional provisions

Division 1—Application, saving and transitional provisions in relation to the commencement of this instrument

7  Application provision—Subclass 192 (Pacific Engagement) visa

  Section 6 of this instrument applies in relation to registrations occurring on or after the commencement of that section.