Migration Regulations 1994 Specification under regulation 1.03 State and Territory Departments and Authorities for the Purposes of the Definition of "Appropriate Regional Authority" June 2005 (Cth)

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Commonwealth of Australia

Migration Act 1958

Migration Regulations 1994

SPECIFICATION OF STATE AND TERRITORY DEPARTMENTS AND AUTHORITIES FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE DEFINITION OF “APPROPRIATE REGIONAL AUTHORITY” IN REGULATION 1.03 OF THE MIGRATION REGULATIONS 1994

I, AMANDA VANSTONE, Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs, acting under regulation 1.17 and the definition of “appropriate regional authority” in regulation 1.03 of the Migration Regulations 1994 (‘the Regulations’) hereby:

  1. REVOKE the gazette notice specifying Departments and authorities as appropriate regional authorities for the purposes of the definition of “appropriate regional authority” in regulation 1.03 of the Regulations signed on 6 February 2003; and

  1. SPECIFY for the purposes of the definition of “appropriate regional authority” in regulation 1.03 the Departments or authorities of the States and Territories listed in the Schedule to this notice in relation to the grant of visas of the following classes:

  • Business Skills (Migrant) (Class AD);

  • Business Skills (Residence) (Class BH);

  • Business Skills – Established Business (Residence) (Class BH);

  • Business Skills (Residence) (Class DF);

  • Business Skills (Provisional) (Class UR);

  • Investor Retirement (Class UY)

This notice comes into effect on and from 1 July 2005.

Dated 23 June 2005.

AMANDA VANSTONE

Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs

[NOTE 1: Regulation 1.17 of the 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: An “appropriate regional authority” is defined in regulation 1.03. The definition provides that in relation to a State or Territory and applications for visas of a particular class, an “appropriate regional authority” is a Department or authority of that State or Territory that is specified by Gazette Notice, for the purposes of these Regulations, in relation to the grant of visas of that class.


SCHEDULE

State or Territory

Departments and Authorities

New South Wales

Department of State and Regional Development

Business Migrant Information and Referral Service

Victoria  

Department of Victorian Communities

Business Migration

Queensland

Department of State Development

Business Migration

Western Australia

Small Business Development Corporation

South Australia  

Department of the Premier and Cabinet

Business and Skilled Migration

Tasmania

Department of Economic Development

Business Migration           

Northern Territory

Department of Business, Industry and Resource Development

Corporate Governance

Australian Capital Territory

Chief Minister’s Department

Business ACT