The Australian Citizenship Amendment (Concession Codes and Payment of Fees) Regulations 2019 (the Regulations) will amend the Australian Citizenship Regulation 2016 (the Citizenship Regulation) to allow citizenship application fees, and refunds of citizenship application fees where appropriate, to be paid in foreign currencies and in foreign countries, and to align the concession codes in Schedule 3 with the concession codes currently employed by the Department of Human Services (DHS).
In particular, the Regulations amend the Citizenship Regulation to:
Incorporate, by reference, instruments made under the Migration Regulations 1994 (the Migration Regulations) that relate to the payment of fees in foreign currencies and in foreign countries.
The purpose of this amendment is to facilitate the lawful collection of citizenship application fees in specified foreign currencies and foreign countries at updated exchange rates.
Update the codes listed in Schedule 3 so that they correspond with the codes appearing on relevant pensioner concession cards issued by DHS. This ensures that affected clients are charged the appropriate concessional citizenship application fee.
Source: Australian-Citizenship-Amendment-Concession-Codes-and-Payment-of-fees-regulations-2019.pdf
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