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1998
THE
PARLIAMENT OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES
MIGRATION (VISA APPLICATION)
CHARGE AMENDMENT BILL 1998
EXPLANATORY
MEMORANDUM
(Circulated by authority
of the
Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs,
the Hon.
Philip Ruddock MP)
ISBN: 0642 378827
MIGRATION (VISA APPLICATION) CHARGE AMENDMENT BILL
1998
OUTLINE
Overview
1 The Migration
(Visa Application) Charge Amendment Bill 1998 (“the Bill”) makes
minor technical amendments to the Migration (Visa Application) Charge Act
1997.
2 The Migration (Visa Application) Charge Act 1997
imposes a visa application charge and sets a visa application charge limit in
relation to visa applications made either inside or outside Australia. Specific
visa application charges are set out in the regulations.
3 The amendments
ensure that:
• only the index numbers published in terms of the
most recently published reference base for the Consumer Price Index are used to
calculate the visa application charge limit; and
• calculations
disregard index numbers that are published in substitution for previously
published index numbers, except where the substituted numbers are published to
take account of changes in the reference base; and
• a minor
inconsistency in terminology is corrected.
FINANCIAL IMPACT
STATEMENT
4 There are no significant financial implications as a
result of these amendments.
MIGRATION (VISA APPLICATION) CHARGE AMENDMENT BILL
1998
NOTES ON INDIVIDUAL CLAUSES
Clause
1 Short title
1 The short title by which this Act will be
known is the Migration (Visa Application) Charge Amendment Act
1998.
Clause 2 Commencement
2 Clause 2 provides
that this Act will be taken to have commenced immediately after the commencement
of the Migration (Visa Application) Charge Act 1997. The commencement
date is necessary to ensure that the visa application charge limit is updated
from the time that the visa application charge commenced.
Clause
3 Schedule(s)
3 Clause 3 provides that the provisions of each Act set
out in the items of the Schedule are amended or repealed as
indicated.
SCHEDULE 1 - Migration (Visa Application) Charge Act
1997
Item 1 Paragraph 5(4)(a)
4 This item makes a minor
typographical amendment, such that the indexation factor for the calculation of
the visa application charge limit will refer to “the most recently
published reference base” for the Consumer Price Index, rather than to
“their most recently published reference base”.
Item 2
Paragraph 5(4)(b)
5 This item replaces the word
“indexation” with the word “index”, so that it is
consistent with the terminology used in the other provisions of the
Act.
Item 3 Paragraph 5(4)(b)
6 This item amends paragraph
5(4)(b) to ensure that:
• only the index numbers published in terms
of the most recently published reference base for the Consumer Price Index are
used to calculate the visa application charge limit; and
• calculations
disregard index numbers that are published in substitution for previously
published index numbers, except where the substituted numbers are published to
take account of changes in the reference base.