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)
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:
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
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 |
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