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Migration (Specified work and areas for subclass 417 visas) Instrument (LIN 22/012) 2022
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Migration (Specified work and areas for subclass 417 visas) Instrument (LIN 22/012) 2022
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(1) Regional Australia is specified if the work carried out in that area is a kind of work mentioned in subsection (2). (2) A kind of work mentioned in the following table is specified if carried out in Regional Australia.
| Item | Kinds of work |
|---|---|
| 1 | Fishing and pearling:(a) conducting operations relating directly to taking or catching fish and other aquatic species;(b) conducting operations relating directly to taking or culturing pearls or pearl shell |
| 2 | Plant and animal cultivation:(a) harvesting and/or packing of fruit and vegetable crops;(b) pruning or trimming vines and trees directly associated with the cultivation and commercial sale of plant produce;(c) general maintenance crop work;(d) cultivating or propagating plants, fungi or their products or parts;(e) immediate processing of plant products;(f) maintaining animals for the purposes of selling them or their bodily produce, including natural increase;(g) immediate processing of animal products including shearing, butchery, packing and tanning, but not including secondary processing;(h) manufacturing dairy produce from raw material |
| 3 | Tree farming and felling:(a) planting or tending trees in a plantation or forest that are intended to be felled;(b) felling trees in a plantation or forest;(c) transporting trees or parts of trees that were felled in a plantation or forest to the place where they are first to be milled or processed, or any other place from which they are to be transported to the place where they are to be milled or processed |
| 4 | Construction:(a) building construction;(b) heavy and civil engineering construction;(c) land development and site preparation services;(d) building structure services;(e) building installation services;(f) building completion services |
| 5 | Mining:(a) coal mining;(b) oil and gas extraction;(c) metal ore mining;(d) construction material mining;(e) other non-metallic mineral mining and quarrying;(f) exploration;(g) mining support services |