Migration Regulations 1994 Specification of Fees for Assessment of a Person's Qualifications and Experience IMMI 06/037 (Cth)

Commonwealth of Australia

Migration Regulations 1994

FEES FOR ASSESSMENT OF A PERSON’S QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

(REGULATION 5.40(1))

I, KEVIN ANDREWS, Acting Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, acting under regulation 1.17 and subregulation 5.40(1) of the Migration Regulations 1994 ("the Regulations"):

1. SPECIFY, for the purposes of paragraph 5.40(1)(a), AUD300 as the fee payable for an assessment of a person’s occupational qualifications or experience (or both) by the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations or the Department of Education, Science and Training.

1. SPECIFY, for the purposes of paragraph 5.40(1)(b), AUD300 as the fee payable for an assessment of a person’s educational qualifications by the Department of Education, Science and Training.

1. SPECIFY, for the purposes of paragraph 5.40(1)(c), AUD300 as the fee payable for an internal review of an assessment by the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations or the Department of Education, Science and Training.

This Instrument, IMMI 06/037, commences on 1 July 2006.

Dated                           29 June            2006

KEVIN ANDREWS

Acting 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:    The Legislative Instruments Act 2003 provides that, in certain circumstances, registration of a legislative instrument on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments replaces the requirement that a notice be published in the Gazette.

NOTE 3:                   Subregulation 5.40(1) provides that a fee payable to an Agency within the meaning of the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997 for an application for assessment of a person’s occupation qualifications or experience (or both), an application for assessment of a person’s education qualifications, and an application for internal review of an assessment, is the fee specified by the Minister in an instrument in writing for this regulation.]