Migration Regulations 1994 Specification under subitem 1225(5) Working Holiday Visa Definitions of 'Specified Work' and 'Regional Australia' June 2008 (Cth)
Commonwealth of Australia
Migration Regulations 1994
WORKING HOLIDAY VISA - DEFINITIONS OF ‘SPECIFIED WORK’ AND ‘REGIONAL AUSTRALIA’
(SUBITEM 1225(5))
I, CHRIS EVANS, Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, acting under subitem 1225(5) of Schedule 1 to the Migration Regulations 1994 (‘the Regulations’):
1.REVOKE Instrument Number IMMI 08/046, signed on 26 May 2008, specifying the definitions of seasonal work and regional Australia for the purposes of subitem 1225(5) of Schedule 1 to the Regulations;
2.SPECIFY the areas having the postcodes listed in the Schedule to this Instrument as being regional Australia for the purposes of subitem 1225(5) of Schedule 1 to the Regulations; AND
3.SPECIFY, for the purposes of subitem 1225(5) of Schedule 1 to the Regulations, specified work to be any type of work identified in the list below:
(a) plant and animal cultivation
(i)the harvesting and/or packing of fruit and vegetable crops
(ii)pruning and trimming vines and trees
(iii)general maintenance crop work
(iv)cultivating or propagating plants, fungi or their products or parts
(v)immediate processing of plant products
(vi)maintaining animals for the purpose of selling them or their bodily produce, including natural increase
(vii)immediate processing of animal products including shearing, butchery, packing and tanning
(viii)manufacturing dairy produce from raw material
(b) fishing and pearling
(i)conducting operations relating directly to taking or catching fish and other aquatic species
(ii)conducting operations relating directly to taking or culturing pearls or pearl shell
(c) tree farming and felling
(i)planting or tending trees in a plantation or forest that are intended to be felled
(ii)felling trees in a plantation or forest
(iii)transporting trees or parts of trees that were felled in a plantation or forest to the place where they are first to be milled or processed or from which they are to be transported to the place where they are to be milled or processed
(d) mining
(i)coal mining
(ii)oil and gas extraction
(iii)metal ore mining
(iv)construction material mining
(v)other non-metallic mineral mining and quarrying
(vi)exploration
(vii)mining support services
(e) construction
(i)residential building construction
(ii)non-residential building construction
(iii)heavy and civil engineering construction
(iv)land development and site preparation services
(v)building structure services
(vi)building installation services
(vii)building completion services
(viii)other construction services
This Instrument, IMMI 08/048, commences on 1 July 2008.
Dated 23 June 2008
CHRIS EVANS
Minister for Immigration and Citizenship
[NOTE 1: Subitem 1225(5) provides that the Minister may specify in an instrument in writing a place that is regional Australia, and may specify in an instrument in writing a kind of work that is specified work.]
Schedule
| AREAS | POSTCODES INCLUSIVE |
| NEW SOUTH WALES | 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 | 4124 to 4125 4133 4211 4270 to 4272 4275 4280 4285 4287 4307 to 4499 4510 4512 4515 4516 4517 to 4519 4522 to 4899 |
| VICTORIA | 3139 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 | 6041 to 6044 6083 to 6084 6121 to 6126 6200 to 6799 |
| SOUTH AUSTRALIA | Entire State |
| TASMANIA | Entire State |
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