Migration Regulations 1994 Specification of Working Holiday Maker Visa definitions of 'seasonal work' and 'regional Australia' IMMI 05/087 (Cth)

Commonwealth of Australia

Migration Regulations 1994

WORKING HOLIDAY MAKER VISA - DEFINITIONS OF ‘SEASONAL WORK’ AND ‘REGIONAL AUSTRALIA’

(REGULATION 1225(5)) 

I, JOHN COBB, Acting Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs, acting under regulation 1.17 and subitem 1225(5) of Schedule 1 to the Migration Regulations 1994 (‘the Regulations’):

1.SPECIFY the harvesting and/or packing of fruit and vegetable crops, pruning and trimming vines and trees, and general maintenance crop work as being seasonal work for the purposes of subitem 1225(5) of Schedule 1 to the Regulations; AND

2.SPECIFY the areas having the postcodes listed in Schedule 1 to this Instrument as being regional Australia for the purposes of subitem 1225(5) of Schedule 1 to the Regulations.

This Instrument takes effect on and from 1 November 2005.

Dated      25 October 2005

JOHN COBB

Acting 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:      Subitem 1225(5) provides that the Minister may specify in a Gazette Notice a place that is regional Australia, and may specify in a Gazette Notice a kind of work that is seasonal work.]

Schedule 1

REGIONAL AND LOW POPULATION GROWTH METROPOLITAN AREAS

POSTCODES INCLUSIVE

NEW SOUTH WALES (Except Sydney, Newcastle, the Central Coast and Wollongong)

2311 to 2312

2328 to 2411

2420 to 2490

2536 to 2551

2575 to 2594

2618 to 2739

2787 to 2898

NORTHERN TERRITORY

Entire Territory

QUEENSLAND

(Except the greater Brisbane area and the Gold Coast)

4124 to 4125

4133

4211

4270 to 4272

4275

4280

4285

4287

4307 to 4499

4515

4517 to 4519

4522 to 4899

SOUTH AUSTRALIA

Entire State

TASMANIA

Entire State

VICTORIA

(Except Melbourne metropolitan area)

3211 to 3334

3340 to 3424

3430 to 3649

3658 to 3749

3753, 3756, 3758, 3762, 3764

3778 to 3781

3783, 3797, 3799

3810 to 3909

3921 to 3925

3945 to 3974

3979

3981 to 3996

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

(Except Perth and surroundings areas)

6041 to 6044

6083 to 6084

6121 to 6126

6200 to 6799