PUBLIC INTEREST CRITERIA – RISK FACTOR

I, PHILIP RUDDOCK, Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, acting under regulation 1.17 of the Migration Regulations 1994 ("the Regulations"):

(1) REVOKE all existing instruments specifying risk factor groups for the purposes of paragraph 4011(2)(b) of Schedule 4 to the Regulations; and

(2) SPECIFY, for the purposes of paragraph 4011(2)(b) of Schedule 4 to the Regulations, the classes of persons described in the Schedule to this notice, where each row of the Schedule is a separate item and each item is a separate class.

This notice has effect on and from 1 January 2001.

Dated 12 December 2000.

PHILIP RUDDOCK

Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs

[NOTES. (1) Regulation 1.17 of the Migration Regulations 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.

(2) Part 1 of Schedule 4 to the Regulations relates to public interest criteria. Clause 4011 provides for the circumstance where an applicant is affected by the risk factor specified in subclause 4011(2). Paragraph 4011(2)(b) of Schedule 4 provides that an applicant is affected by the risk factor, referred to in subclause 4011(1), if the applicant has all the characteristics of a class of persons specified by the Minister by Gazette Notice for the purposes of paragraph 4011(2)(b).