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Australian Citizenship Amendment (Indexation of Fees) Regulations 2025

I, the Honourable Sam Mostyn AC, GovernorGeneral of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated    28 March 2025

Sam Mostyn AC

GovernorGeneral

By Her Excellency’s Command

Julian Hill

Assistant Minister for Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs

 

 

 

 

 

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Part 1—Amendments

Australian Citizenship Regulation 2016

Part 2—Application of amendments

Australian Citizenship Regulation 2016

 

  This instrument is the Australian Citizenship Amendment (Indexation of Fees) Regulations 2025.

 (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

1.  The whole of this instrument

1 July 2025.

1 July 2025

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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.

  This instrument is made under the Australian Citizenship Act 2007.

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

1  Schedule 3 (table item 1, column 2)

Omit “$360”, substitute “$370”.

2  Schedule 3 (table item 2, column 2)

Omit “$360”, substitute “$370”.

3  Schedule 3 (table item 3, column 2)

Omit “$360”, substitute “$370”.

4  Schedule 3 (table item 4, column 2)

Omit “$360”, substitute “$370”.

5  Schedule 3 (table item 14, column 2)

Omit “$560”, substitute “$575”.

6  Schedule 3 (table item 16, column 2)

Omit “$345”, substitute “$350”.

7  Schedule 3 (table item 18, column 2)

Omit “$345”, substitute “$350”.

8  Schedule 3 (table item 20, column 2)

Omit “$240”, substitute “$245”.

9  Schedule 3 (table item 21, column 2)

Omit “$300”, substitute “$310”.

10  Schedule 3 (table item 24, column 2)

Omit “$275”, substitute “$280”.

11  At the end of Part 4

Add:

  The amendments of this instrument made by Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Australian Citizenship Amendment (Indexation of Fees) Regulations 2025 apply in relation to an application made on or after 1 July 2025.