Migration Regulations 1994 Specification of Designated APEC Economy December 2002 (Cth)

Commonwealth of Australia

Migration Act 1958

Migration Regulations 1994

DESIGNATED APEC ECONOMY

I, PHILIP RUDDOCK, Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs, acting under regulations 1.17 and 1.03 of the Migration Regulations ("the Regulations"), hereby:

1. REVOKE the Gazette Notice specifying designated APEC economies made for the purposes of regulation 1.03 of the Regulations on 21 September 2001; and

(2) SPECIFY each APEC economy referred to in the Schedule to this instrument as a designated APEC economy for the purposes of the definition of "designated APEC economy" in regulation 1.03 of the Regulations.

This notice has effect upon publication.

Dated 10 December 2002.

PHILIP RUDDOCK

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

Item   Designated APEC Economy

1. Brunei Darussalam

1. Chile

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

1. Republic of Indonesia

1. Japan

1. The Republic of Korea

1. Malaysia

1. People’s Republic of China

1. Peru

1. The Republic of the Philippines

1. Taiwan

1. Thailand