Restriction on charging fees for immigration representations

Offence title:

Restriction on charging fees for immigration representations

Act:

282 Migration Act 1958

Offence:

(1)   A person who is not a registered migration agent must not ask for or receive any fee or other reward for making immigration representations.

(2)   A person must not ask for or receive and fee or reward for the making of immigration representations by another person who is not a migration agent.

Penalty:

Imprisonment for 10 years

Summary/Indictable/mixed:

Mixed

Jurisdiction:

Local, District or Supreme Court

How committed:

A migrant seeks assistance from their accountant, the accountant agrees to give such assistance and charges a fee.

Important note:

ss. (4) defines “makes immigration representations”

The regulations set out circumstances which are not “immigration representations”