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Migration Agents Registration Application Charge Bill
1997
Date Introduced: 1 October 1997
House: House of Representatives
Portfolio: Immigration and Multicultural
Affairs
Commencement: 21 March 1998
To establish a system for determining the charge that migration
agents seeking registration must pay.
This Bill forms part of a package of three Bills designed to
streamline the Migration Agents Registration scheme.A more detailed
background on the overall scheme is contained above for the
Migration Legislation Amendment (Migration Agents) Bill
1997.
The existing Migration Agents Registration (Application)
Levy Act 1992 provides for a two-tiered system of registering
Migration Agents.Section 6 of that Actallows a person who is
proposing to give immigration assistance in no more than 5 cases
can pay the reduced fee ($105) or otherwise the full fee
($1050).There is also a formula for working out the fee payable by
employees who work as Migration Agents for a corporation or other
employer.This Act will be repealed by the Migration Legislation
Amendment (Migration Agents) Bill 1997.
Susan Downing
29 October 1997
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