Migration Regulations 1994 Specification of Designated Languages for the Purposes of Regulation 1.03 June 2002 (Cth)

Commonwealth of Australia

Migration Act 1958

Migration Regulations 1994

SPECIFICATION OF DESIGNATED LANGUAGES FOR THE PURPOSES OF REGULATION 1.03 OF THE MIGRATION REGULATIONS 1994

I, PHILIP RUDDOCK, Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs, acting under regulation 1.17 and regulation 1.03 of the Migration Regulations 1994 ("the Regulations") hereby:

1. REVOKE the previous instrument specifying designated languages for the purposes of regulation 1.03 dated 23 June 1999;

1. SPECIFY each of the languages referred to in the Schedule as a designated language for the purposes of the definition of  “designated language” in regulation 1.03.

This notice has effect on publication.

Dated 27 June 2002.

PHILIP RUDDOCK

Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs

[NOTE 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.

Note 2: The definition of ‘designated language’ in regulation 1.03 provides that a designated language means a language that is specified by Gazette Notice as a designated language.]

SCHEDULE – DESIGNATED LANGUAGES

Afrikaans

Albanian

Arabic (including Lebanese)

Armenian

Bengali

Bosnian

Bulgarian

Burmese

Chinese - Cantonese

Chinese - Mandarin

Croatian

Czech

Danish

Estonian

Fijian

Finnish

French

German

Greek

Hebrew

Hindi

Hungarian

Indonesian

Malaysian

Italian

Japanese

Khmer

Korean

Lao

Latvian

Lithuanian

Macedonian

Maltese

Netherlandic (Dutch)

Norwegian

Persian

Polish

Portuguese

Punjabi

Romanian

Russian

Serbian

Sinhalese

Slovak

Slovene

Spanish

Swedish

Tagalog (Filipino)

Tamil

Thai

Turkish

Ukrainian

Urdu

Vietnamese

Yiddish