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PASSPORTS AMENDMENT REGULATIONS 2001 (NO. 1) 2001 NO. 156

Statutory Rules 2001 No. 156

Issued by the authority of the Minister for Foreign Affairs

Passports Act 1938

Passports Amendment Regulations 2001 (No. 1)

Subsection 12(1) of the Passports Act 1938 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with the Act, prescribing all matters required or permitted by the Act to be prescribed, or necessary and convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to the Act, and in particular (under paragraph 12(1)(c)) for prescribing the fees to be charged in respect of the issue, renewal or endorsement of passports.

These Regulations amend the Passports Regulations 1939 to effect a slight increase to the fees payable for the issue of Australian passports, Certificates of Identity, Documents of Identity and Convention Travel Documents (Titres de Voyage).

The increase reflected in the Regulations is in accordance with a practice, followed since 1992, that fees for travel documents under the Act should be subject to increase each year by the general movement in the Consumer Price Index.

Details of the Regulations are set out in the Attachment.

The Regulations commence on 1 July 2001.

Attachment

DETAILS OF THE PROPOSED PASSPORTS AMENDMENT REGULATIONS 2001 (NO. 1)

Regulation 1 names the Regulations.

Regulation 2 provides that the Regulations commence on 1 July 2001.

Regulation 3 provides that Schedule 1 amends the Passport Regulations 1939 by inserting a definition of Convention Travel Document and increasing the fees for the issue of Passports and other travel documents (such as Certificates and Documents of Identity) according to the following table:

Col 1 Item	Column 2 Matter	Column 3 Present Fee	Proposed Fee
1	Issue to a person (other than a prescribed minor) of an Australian passport of 36 pages.	132	136
2	Issue to a prescribed minor of an Australian passport of 36 pages.	66	68
3	Issue to a person (other than a prescribed minor)of an Australian passport of 68 pages.	198	204
4	Issue to a prescribed minor of an Australian passport of 68 pages.	99	102
5	Observation made after the issue of a passport.	10	10
6	Issue of a certificate of identity.	79	82
7	Issue of a document of identity.	28	29
8	Renewal of a certificate of identity.	10	10
9	Renewal of a document of identity.	10	10
10	Issue of a convention travel document.	79	82
11	Renewal of a convention travel document.	8	8