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This instrument updates Australia’s skilled migration rules (effective July 2006), setting which occupations qualify for skilled visas, assigning 40/50/60 point values, and naming the assessing bodies that verify qualifications. It distinguishes sponsored applicants in specified Sydney-area postcodes from other independent or employer‑sponsored migrants, lists ASCO codes and assessors (e.g. Engineers Australia, CPA, ACS, TRA), and revokes the prior 2005 instrument while keeping the same structure and intent.
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Direct links to the current provisions in Migration Regulations 1994 - Specification of Residential Postcodes, Skilled Occupations, Relevant Assessing Authorities and Points - IMMI 06/035.
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Commonwealth of Australia
Migration Regulations 1994
I, AMANDA VANSTONE, Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, acting under regulations 1.17 and 1.03 and subregulation 2.26B(1) of the Migration Regulations 1994 (‘the Regulations’):
2. SPECIFY each occupation that is in the Sydney and Selected Areas Skilled Shortage List referred to in Schedule A to this Instrument as a skilled occupation for the purposes of subparagraph (a)(iii) of the definition of skilled occupation in regulation 1.03 of the Regulations;
3. SPECIFY the number of points referred to in Schedule A to this Instrument for the corresponding occupation set out in Schedule A, for the purposes of subparagraph (a)(iv) of the definition of skilled occupation in regulation 1.03 of the Regulations;
SPECIFY each body referred to in Schedule A to this Instrument as the relevant assessing authority for the corresponding skilled occupation set out in Schedule A, for the purposes of subregulation 2.26B(1) of the Regulations;
SPECIFY the postcodes listed in Schedule B to this Instrument, for the purposes of subparagraph (a)(i) of the definition of skilled occupation in regulation 1.03 of the Regulations;
SPECIFY each occupation referred to in Schedule C to this Instrument as a skilled occupation for the purposes of paragraph (b) of the definition of skilled occupation in regulation 1.03 of the Regulations;
SPECIFY the number of points referred to in Schedule C to this Instrument for the corresponding occupation set out in Schedule C, for the purposes of paragraph (b) of the definition of skilled occupation in regulation 1.03 of the Regulations; AND
SPECIFY each body referred to in Schedule C to this Instrument as the relevant assessing authority for the corresponding skilled occupation set out in Schedule C, for the purposes of subregulation 2.26B(1) of the Regulations.
This Instrument, IMMI 06/036, commences on 1 July 2006.
Dated 19 June 2006
AMANDA VANSTONE
Minister for Immigration and Multicultural 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: Paragraph (a) of the definition of skilled occupation in regulation 1.03 of the Regulations, provides that, in relation to an applicant for a Skilled Australian Sponsored (Migrant) (Class BQ) visa, a skilled occupation means an occupation that is in the Sydney and Selected Areas Skilled Shortage List specified by Gazette Notice, for which a number of points specified in the Notice are available and whose sponsor has, on the sponsorship form, stated a residential address the postcode of which is specified in that Notice.
NOTE 3: Paragraph (b) of the definition of skilled occupation in regulation 1.03 of the Regulations, provides that, in any other case, a skilled occupation means an occupation that is specified by Gazette Notice as a skilled occupation for which a number of points specified in the Notice are available.
NOTE 4: Regulation 1.03 provides that relevant assessing authority means a person or body specified under regulation 2.26B.
NOTE 5: Subregulation 2.26B(1) provides the Minister may, by notice in the Gazette, specify a person or body as the relevant assessing authority for a skilled occupation if the person or body is approved in writing by the Minister or Education as the relevant assessing authority for the occupation.
NOTE 6: Education is defined in Regulation 1.03 as the Department of Education, Science and Training.]
Schedule A
Sydney and Selected Areas Skilled Shortage List
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