1Migration (Critical Technology⸺Kinds of Technology) Specification (LIN 24/010) 2024

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Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia

 

Migration (Critical Technology⸺Kinds of Technology) Specification (LIN 24/010) 2024

I, Clare O’Neil, Minister for Home Affairs, make the following specification.

Dated 15 February 2024

Clare O’Neil

Minister for Home Affairs

 

 

 

Contents

1  Name

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Definitions

5  Critical technology–specified kinds of technology

6  Application

1  Name

  This instrument is the Migration (Critical Technology⸺Kinds of Technology) Specification (LIN 24/010) 2024.

2  Commencement

  This instrument commences on the later of:

 (a) 1 April 2024; and

 (b) the day after this instrument is registered on the Federal Register of Legislation.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under subregulation 1.15Q(2) of the Migration Regulations 1994.

4  Definitions

  In this instrument:

Regulations means the Migration Regulations 1994.

5  Critical technology–specified kinds of technology

  For the purposes of the definition of critical technology in regulation 1.03 of the Regulations, each kind of technology mentioned in column 1 of an item in the following table is specified.

 

• Critical technology–specified kinds of technology
• Item Column 1 Column 2
• Kind of technology Description
• 1. Advanced manufacturing and materials technology Technology that produces, forms, shapes or structures matter in forms with one or more definable properties, characteristics, qualities, or features, and the results thereof.
• 2. Artificial intelligence technology Technology that relates to the performance of a sequence of operations to transform or convey information, including as part of, in response to, or in support of, agents exhibiting any degree of autonomous or intelligent behaviour.
• 3. Advanced information and communication technology Technology that relates to advanced data analytics, advanced optical communications, advanced radiofrequency communications, high performance computing, protective cyber security technologies or virtual worlds.