Migration (LIN 19/212: Specification of Exempt Occupations) Instrument 2019 (Cth)

Migration (LIN 19/212: Specification of Exempt Occupations) Instrument 2019

I, David Coleman, Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs, make the following instrument.

Dated 29 October 2019

David Coleman

David Coleman

Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs

Contents

Part 1—Preliminary  1

1  Name........................................................................................................................................ 1

2  Commencement........................................................................................................................ 1

3  Authority.................................................................................................................................. 1

4  Definitions................................................................................................................................ 1

5  Schedule 1................................................................................................................................ 1

Part 2—Exempt occupations  2

6  Specified occupations............................................................................................................... 2

Schedule 1—Repeals  4

Migration (IMMI 18/035: Specification of Exempt Occupations) Instrument 2018 (F2018L00287)          4

Part 1—Preliminary

1  Name

(1)This instrument is the Migration (LIN 19/212: Specification of Exempt Occupations) Instrument 2019.

(2)This instrument may be cited as LIN 19/212.

2  Commencement

The whole of this instrument commences at the same time as Schedule 2 to the Migration Amendment (New Skilled Regional Visas) Regulations 2019 commences.

3  Authority

This instrument is made under subregulations 2.72(13) and 2.72C(14) of the Regulations.

4  Definitions

In this instrument:

ANZSCO has the same meaning as in regulation 1.03 of the Regulations.

nec is short for ‘not elsewhere classified’.

Regulations means the Migration Regulations 1994.

5  Schedule 1

The instrument that is specified in Schedule 1 to this instrument is repealed as set out in the applicable items in that Schedule.

Part 2—Exempt occupations

6  Specified occupations

(1)  For the purposes of subregulation 2.72(13) of the Regulations, an occupation listed in column 1 of an item of the table in subsection (3) (for which an ANZSCO code is listed in column 2 of the item) is specified for the purposes of the following provisions of the Regulations:

(a)  paragraphs 2.72(11)(c) and (12)(c);

(b)  subregulation 2.73(13);

(c)  paragraphs 2.73(14)(c) and 2.86(2A)(b);

(d)  subregulation 2.86(2AA);

(e)  paragraph 5.19(5)(g);

(f)  subregulation 5.19(7);

(g)  clauses 482.224 and 482.233 of Schedule 2;

(h)  paragraph 8607(3)(a) of Schedule 8.

(2)  For the purposes of subregulation 2.72C(14) of the Regulations, an occupation listed in column 1 of an item of the table in subsection (3) (for which an ANZSCO code is listed in column 2 of the item) is specified for the purposes of the following provisions of the Regulations:

(a)  paragraph 2.72C(13)(b);

(b)  subregulation 2.73B(11);

(c)  paragraphs 2.73B(12)(c), 2.86(2B)(b) and 2.86(2BA)(b);

(d)  clause 494.222 of Schedule 2;

(e)  paragraph 8608(3)(a) of Schedule 8.

(3)  For the purposes of subsections (1) and (2), the following is the table:

Specified occupations
Item	Column 1 Occupation	Column 2 ANZSCO Code
1	chief executive or managing director	111111
2	corporate general manager	111211
3	general medical practitioner	253111
4	resident medical officer	253112
5	anaesthetist	253211
6	specialist physician (general medicine)	253311
7	cardiologist	253312
8	clinical haematologist	253313
9	medical oncologist	253314
10	endocrinologist	253315
11	gastroenterologist	253316
12	intensive care specialist	253317
13	neurologist	253318
14	paediatrician	253321
15	renal medicine specialist	253322
16	rheumatologist	253323
17	thoracic medicine specialist	253324
18	specialist physician (nec)	253399
19	psychiatrist	253411
20	surgeon (general)	253511
21	cardiothoracic surgeon	253512
22	neurosurgeon	253513
23	orthopaedic surgeon	253514
24	otorhinolaryngologist	253515
25	paediatric surgeon	253516
26	plastic and reconstructive surgeon	253517
27	urologist	253518
28	vascular surgeon	253521
29	dermatologist	253911
30	emergency medicine specialist	253912
31	obstetrician and gynaecologist	253913
32	ophthalmologist	253914
33	pathologist	253915
34	diagnostic and interventional radiologist	253917
35	radiation oncologist	253918
36	medical practitioners (nec)	253999

Schedule 1—Repeals

Migration (IMMI 18/035: Specification of Exempt Occupations) Instrument 2018 (F2018L00287)

1  The whole of the instrument

Repeal the instrument.