3FAssistance given to professional development applicants

#### 3F Assistance given to professional development applicants For the purposes of subsection 276(4) of the Act, a person (the adviser) does not give immigration assistance if the adviser gives assistance referred to in subsection 276(1) or (2) of the Act to another person (the applicant) in these circumstances: (a) the adviser is: (i) a professional development sponsor of the applicant; or (ii) an employee of a professional development sponsor of the applicant who is acting on the sponsor’s behalf; and (b) the applicant is in a class of persons specified in an instrument made under regulation 3EA; and (c) the applicant has made or intends to make an application for a visa in relation to which the professional development sponsor has sponsored, or intends to sponsor, the applicant; and (d) the assistance is given in relation to the application; and (e) the adviser is not a registered migration agent.