9Different way of making an application for approval as a temporary activities sponsor or variation of approval

9 Different way of making an application for approval as a temporary activities sponsor or variation of approval

(1) For the purposes of subregulation 2.61(3B) and subregulation 2.66(5), subsection (2) specifies the way and the circumstances in which, an application for approval as a temporary activities sponsor, or for a variation of a term of an approval as a temporary activities sponsor, may be made, and the form for making such an application. (2) If subsection (3) or (4) applies, and if:

an officer has sent an authorisation for a person (the applicant) to make an application in accordance with this subsection; and the authorisation in paragraph (a) is sent by email from an email address recognised by the Department as an official departmental email address, then the applicant may make an application:

using approved Form 1478, as provided with the authorising email; and in accordance with the directions in the authorising email, by the end of the day after the day on which the authorisation was given (AEST or AEDST as applicable to the date on which the authorisation was given).

(3) This subsection applies if: (a) the Department has identified a problem with its Internet application systems; and (b) as a result of the problem referred to in paragraph (a), the applicant is unable to make an Internet application; and (c) electronic lodgement of the application is not prevented by the Act or the Regulations; and (d) it is more likely than not that the problem will not be rectified by the end of the business day on which the problem is identified by the Department; and (e) an affected visa applicant will become an unlawful non-citizen on, or before, the next business day. (4) This subsection applies if: (a) a problem is identified by the Department with the Department’s systems that allow Internet applications to be made and the applicant is unable to make an Internet application as a result of that problem; and (b) the problem referred to in paragraph (a) is unable to be rectified by the Department; and (c) electronic lodgement of the application is not prevented by the Act or the Regulations.

Part 4 —Nomination of an occupation for a subclass 457 and a subclass 482 visa