Commonwealth of Australia
Migration Act 1958
ELIGIBLE PASSPORTS
(SECTION 175A)
I, WENDY SOUTHERN, Acting Secretary of the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, acting under section 175A of the Migration Act 1958 (the ‘Act’):
1. REVOKE Instrument number IMMI 13/058 signed on 20 May 2013 determining eligible passports for the purposes of section 175A; AND
2. DETERMINE that for the purposes of section 165 of the Act, the following kinds of passports are ‘eligible passports’:
(a) Australian ePassports; and
(b) New Zealand ePassports; and
(c) Swiss ePassports; and
(d) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ePassports; and
(e) United States of America ePassports
This Instrument, IMMI 13/139, will commence on 11 November 2013.
Dated 6 November 2013
Wendy Southern
Acting Secretary of the Department of Immigration and Border Protection