Migration Regulations 1994 Specification of Public Interest Criteria Risk Factor December 2000 (Cth)

Commonwealth of Australia

Migration Act 1958

Migration Regulations 1994

PUBLIC INTEREST CRITERIA – RISK FACTOR

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

(1) REVOKE all existing instruments specifying risk factor groups for the purposes of paragraph 4011(2)(b) of Schedule 4 to the Regulations; and

(2) SPECIFY, for the purposes of paragraph 4011(2)(b) of Schedule 4 to the Regulations, the classes of persons described in the Schedule to this notice, where each row of the Schedule is a separate item and each item is a separate class.

This notice has effect on and from 1 January 2001.

Dated 12 December 2000.

PHILIP RUDDOCK

Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs

[NOTES. (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.

(2) Part 1 of Schedule 4 to the Regulations relates to public interest criteria. Clause 4011 provides for the circumstance where an applicant is affected by the risk factor specified in subclause 4011(2). Paragraph 4011(2)(b) of Schedule 4 provides that an applicant is affected by the risk factor, referred to in subclause 4011(1), if the applicant has all the characteristics of a class of persons specified by the Minister by Gazette Notice for the purposes of paragraph 4011(2)(b).

1.  Afghanistan  Female                   60 years or older

2.   Albania   Female   20 years and older

3.   Albania   Male   20 years and older

4.  Armenia  Female                   60 years or older

5.  Bangladesh  Female                   20 years or older

6.  Bangladesh  Male  20 to 39 years inclusive

7.  Bangladesh  Male  60 years or older

8.  Bosnia-Herzegovina  Female                   30 to 39 years inclusive

9.  Bosnia-Herzegovina  Female                   50 years or older

10.  Bosnia-Herzegovina  Male  60 years or older

11.  Brazil  Female                   20 to 39 years inclusive

12.  Brazil  Male  20 to 29 years inclusive

13.  Burma (Myanmar)  Female                   20 years or older

14.  Burma (Myanmar)  Male  20 years or older

15.  Cambodia, the Kingdom of              Female                   30 years or older

16.  Cambodia, the Kingdom of              Male  25 to 29 years inclusive

17.  Cambodia, the Kingdom of              Male  60 years or older

18.  Chile  Female                   20 years or older

19.  Chile  Male  20 to 39 years inclusive

20.  Chile  Male  60 years or older

21.  China, Peoples Republic of              Female                   50 years or older

22.  China, Peoples Republic of              Male  20 to 24 years inclusive

23.  China, Peoples Republic of              Male  60 years or older

24.  Colombia  Female                   20 years or older

25.  Colombia  Male  20 to 49 years inclusive

26.  Croatia  Female                   20 to 29 years inclusive

27.  Croatia  Female                   50 years or older

28.  Croatia  Male  20 to 39 years inclusive

29.  Croatia  Male  60 years or older

30.  Ecuador  Female                   20 to 24 years inclusive

31.  Ecuador  Female                   30 to 49 years inclusive

32.  Ecuador  Female                   60 years or older

33.  Ecuador  Male  30 to 39 years inclusive

34.  Egypt, Arab Republic of  Female                   20 years or older

35.  Egypt, Arab Republic of  Male  20 to 49 years inclusive

36.  Egypt, Arab Republic of  Male  60 years or older

37.  Ethiopia  Female                   60 years or older

38.  Fiji  Female                   20 years or older

39.  Fiji  Male  20 to 29 years inclusive

40.  Fiji  Male  60 years or older

41.  Fmr Yugo Rep of Macedonia            Female                   20 years or older

42.  Fmr Yugo Rep of Macedonia            Male  20 years or older

43.  Greece  Female                   20 to 29 years inclusive

44.  Greece  Female                   50 years or older

45.  Greece  Male  20 to 39 years inclusive

46.  Greece  Male  60 years or older

47.  Hungary  Female                   20 to 39 years inclusive

48.  Hungary  Female                   60 years or older

49.  Hungary  Male  20 to 39 years inclusive

50.  Iran  Female                   30 years or older

51.  Iran  Male  25 years or older

52.  Iraq  Female                   60 years or older

53.  Israel  Female                   20 to 29 years inclusive

54.  Israel  Male  20 to 39 years inclusive

55.  Jordan  Female                   30 to 39 years inclusive

56.  Jordan  Female                   50 years or older

57.  Jordan  Male  25 to 39 years inclusive

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58.  Jordan  Male  60 years or older

59.  Korea, Dem Peoples Rep Of            Female                   20 to 39 years inclusive

60.  Korea, Dem Peoples Rep Of            Male  25 to 39 years inclusive

61.  Lao Peoples Democratic Rep           Female                   20 years or older

62.  Lao Peoples Democratic Rep           Male  20 to 24 years inclusive

63.  Lao Peoples Democratic Rep           Male  60 years or older

64.  Lebanon  Female                   20 years or older

65.  Lebanon  Male  20 years or older

66.  Lithuania  Female                   20 to 29 years inclusive

67.  Lithuania  Female                   50 to 59 years inclusive

68.  Lithuania  Male  25 to 29 years inclusive

69.  Mongolia  Female                   30 to 39 years inclusive

70.  Nepal  Female                   30 to 59 years inclusive

71.  Nepal  Male  25 to 39 years inclusive

72.  Pakistan  Female                   20 years or older

73.  Pakistan  Male  25 to 29 years inclusive

74.  Pakistan  Male  60 years or older

75.  Peru  Female                   20 years or older

76.  Peru  Male  20 years or older

77.  Philippines  Female                   20 years or older

78.  Philippines  Male  20 years or older

79.  Poland  Female                   20 years or older

80.  Poland  Male  20 to 49 years inclusive

81.  Poland  Male  60 years or older

82.  Romania  Female                   25 years or older

83.  Romania  Male  25 years or older

84.  Russian Federation  Female                   20 years or older

85.  Russian Federation  Male  20 to 39 years inclusive

86.  Samoa  Female                   20 years or older

87.  Samoa  Male  20 to 39 years inclusive

88.  Samoa  Male  50 years or older

89.  Sri Lanka  Female                   20 to 29 years inclusive

90.  Sri Lanka  Female                   50 years or older

91.  Sri Lanka  Male  20 to 29 years inclusive

92.  Sri Lanka  Male  60 years or older

93.  Syria  Female                   40 years or older

94.  Syria  Male  25 to 39 years inclusive

95.  Syria  Male  50 years or older

96.  Tonga  Female                   20 to 29 years inclusive

97.  Tonga  Female                   60 years or older

98.  Tonga  Male  20 to 39 years inclusive

99.  Tonga  Male  60 years or older

100.  Turkey  Female                   20 to 24 years inclusive

101.  Turkey  Female                   30 years or older

102.  Turkey  Male  20 to 29 years inclusive

103.  Turkey  Male  50 years or older

104.  Ukraine  Female                   25 years or older

105.  Ukraine  Male  20 years or older

106.  Uruguay  Female                   20 to 24 years inclusive

107.  Uruguay  Female                   50 years or older

108.  Uruguay  Male  20 to 49 years inclusive

109.  Uruguay  Male  60 years or older

110.  Vietnam  Female                   20 years or older

111.  Vietnam  Male  20 years or older

112.  Yugoslavia, Fed Republic of             Female                   30 years or older

113.  Yugoslavia, Fed Republic of             Male  20 years or older

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