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Australian Passports (Application Fees) Amendment Determination 2024

I, Penny Wong, Minister for Foreign Affairs, make the following determination.

Dated  28 May 2024  

Penny Wong

Minister for Foreign Affairs

 

 

 

 

 

Contents

1  Name

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Australian Passports (Application Fees) Determination 2015

Schedule 2—Transitional provision

 

1  Name

  This is the Australian Passports (Application Fees) Amendment Determination 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.

Commencement information

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Provisions

Commencement

Date/Details

The whole of this instrument

1 July 2024.

 

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 Passports (Application Fees) Act 2005.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended 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 1Amendments

 

Australian Passports (Application Fees) Determination 2015

1  Paragraph 5(1)(a)

Omit “2019”, substitute “2024”.

2  Subsection 5(3)

Omit the table, substitute:

Application fees

 

Column 1

Column 2

Item

Kind of application

Fee

1

Application for an Australian passport that is valid for up to 10 years (other than an application mentioned in a later item in this table)

$398

2

Application for an Australian passport for a child that is valid for up to 5 years (other than an application mentioned in a later item in this table)

$201

3

Application for an Australian passport:

(a) for a child who is 16 or 17; and

(b) that is valid for up to 10 years;

other than an application mentioned in a later item in this table

$398

4

Application by a person who is 75 or over for an Australian passport that is valid for up to 5 years (other than an application mentioned in a later item in this table)

$201

5

Application for an emergency passport

$250

6

Application for a replacement passport (including a replacement passport to which item 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 or 17 of the table in subsection 17(2) of the Australian Passports Determination 2015 applies)

$250

7

Application for the making of an observation on a passport after the issue of the passport

$20

8

Application for a certificate of identity

$250

9

Application for a document of identity

$105

10

Application for a convention travel document

$250

11

Application for a provisional travel document

Nil

3  Subsection 6(1)

Omit “fee in respect of”, substitute “additional fee in respect of”.

4  Paragraph 6(1)(a)

Omit “2019”, substitute “2024”.

5  Subsection 6(3)

Omit the table, substitute:

Additional fees

 

Column 1

Column 2

Item

Kind of application

Fee

1

Application for a priority processed travel document to be issued within 2 business days after the applicant gives all the information requested by the Minister for the purpose of being satisfied of the identity, entitlement or eligibility of the applicant

$290

2

Application for a fast tracked travel document to be issued within 5 business days after the applicant gives all the information requested by the Minister for the purpose of being satisfied of the identity, entitlement or eligibility of the applicant

$100

3

Application for a priority processed travel document, as mentioned in item 2, where a fast tracked travel document fee has already been paid by the person in respect of the travel document under item 1.

$190

4

Application for an Australian passport (other than an emergency passport, a replacement passport or a passport for which the period of validity is less than the maximum period for a passport of that kind) that is made overseas

(a) for an adult—$178; and

(b) for a child—$87

6  Part 3

Repeal the Part.

Schedule 2Transitional provision

1  Transitional provision

The Australian Passports (Application Fees) Determination 2015 as amended by this instrument applies in relation to applications lodged on or after 1 July 2024.