Contents
1............ Name of regulation.............................................................................. 1
2............ Commencement................................................................................... 1
3............ Authority............................................................................................. 1
4............ Schedules............................................................................................ 1
Schedule 1—Amendments 2
Part 1—Main amendments 2
Australian Citizenship Regulations 2007 2
Part 2—Application and transitional provisions 4
Australian Citizenship Regulations 2007 4
1 Name of regulation
This regulation is the Australian Citizenship Amendment (Credit Card Surcharge) Regulation 2014.
2 Commencement
This regulation commences on 23 August 2014.
3 Authority
This regulation is made under the Australian Citizenship Act 2007.
4 Schedules
Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.
Schedule 1—Amendments
Part 1—Main amendments
Australian Citizenship Regulations 2007
1 Regulation 4
Insert:
credit card surcharge: see subregulation 12A(1).
Schedule 3 amount: see subregulation 12A(1).
2 Subregulation 12A(1)
Repeal the subregulation, substitute:
(1) For paragraph 46(1)(d) of the Act, the fee to accompany an application under a provision of the Act is the sum of:
(a) the amount (the Schedule 3 amount) set out in Schedule 3 for the application; and
(b) if the Schedule 3 amount, or part of the Schedule 3 amount, is paid by credit card (other than a payment made in New Zealand currency or Singaporean currency)—the following amount (the credit card surcharge):
(i) for payment by Visa or MasterCard credit card—1.08% of the Schedule 3 amount paid by credit card;
(ii) for payment by American Express or Japan Credit Bureau (JCB) credit card—1.99% of the Schedule 3 amount paid by credit card;
(iii) for payment by Diners Club International credit card—2.91% of the Schedule 3 amount paid by credit card.
3 Subregulation 12A(2) (note)
Omit “paragraph 22(1)(f)”, substitute “section 2B”.
4 Paragraph 13(4)(c)
Omit “fee”, substitute “amount”.
5 Subregulation 13(4)
After “$20 of the fee”, insert “payable under section 46 of the Act in relation to the application”.
6 After subregulation 13(4)
Insert:
(4A) If the Minister refunds $20 in relation to a fee under subregulation (4), and the fee included a credit card surcharge, the Minister must also refund the proportion of the credit card surcharge that is equal to the proportion that $20 is of the Schedule 3 amount included in the fee.
7 Paragraph 13(5)(c)
Omit “fee”, substitute “amount”.
8 Subregulation 13(5)
After “$130 of the fee”, insert “payable under section 46 of the Act in relation to the application”.
9 After subregulation 13(5)
Insert:
(5A) If the Minister refunds $130 in relation to a fee under subregulation (5), and the fee included a credit card surcharge, the Minister must also refund the proportion of the credit card surcharge that is equal to the proportion that $130 is of the Schedule 3 amount included in the fee.
10 Schedule 3 (heading)
Repeal the heading (not including the note), substitute:
Schedule 3—Amounts to accompany applications
11 Schedule 3 (table, heading to column headed “Fee”)
Repeal the heading, substitute:
Part 2—Application and transitional provisions
Australian Citizenship Regulations 2007
12 At the end of Part 4
Add:
26 Amendments made by the Australian Citizenship Amendment (Credit Card Surcharge) Regulation 2014
The amendments of these Regulations made by Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Australian Citizenship Amendment (Credit Card Surcharge) Regulation 2014 apply in relation to an application made under Division 2, 3 or 4 of Part 2 of the Act on or after 23 August 2014.