SPECIFICATION OF DESIGNATED APEC ECONOMIES FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE DEFINITION OF “DESIGNATED APEC ECONOMY” IN REGULATION 1.03 OF THE MIGRATION REGULATIONS 1994

I, AMANDA VANSTONE, Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs, acting under regulations 1.17 and 1.03 of the Migration Regulations 1994 (‘the Regulations’):

1. REVOKE the Gazette Notice signed on 10 December 2002 specifying designated APEC economies for the purposes of the definition of “designated APEC economy” in regulation 1.03 of the Regulations; AND

2. SPECIFY each APEC economy set out in the Schedule to this notice as a designated APEC economy for the purposes of the definition of “designated APEC economy” in regulation 1.03 of the Regulations.

Dated 26 July 2005

AMANDA VANSTONE

Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs

[NOTE 1 Regulation 1.17 provides that the Minister may, by notice published in the Gazette, specify matters required by individual provisions of the Regulations to be specified for the purposes of those provisions.

NOTE 2 The definition of “designated APEC economy” in regulation 1.03 provides that a designated APEC economy means an APEC economy specified by Gazette Notice for the purposes of the definition.]

SCHEDULE

Designated APEC Economy

Brunei Darussalam

Chile

The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China

Republic of Indonesia

Japan

The Republic of Korea

Malaysia

People’s Republic of China

Peru

The Republic of the Philippines

Taiwan/Chinese Taipei

Thailand

Papua New Guinea

Singapore

The Socialist Republic of Vietnam