Migration Regulations 1994 Specification under subregulation 5.40(1) Fees for Assessment of Qualifications and Experience November 2010 (Cth)

Commonwealth of Australia

Migration Regulations 1994

FEES FOR ASSESSMENT OF QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

(SUBREGULATION 5.40(1))

I, CHRIS BOWEN, Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, acting under subregulation 5.40(1) of the Migration Regulations 1994 (‘the Regulations’):

1. REVOKE Instrument number IMMI 06/037 signed on 29 June 2006 specifying fees payable for applications for the assessment of occupational qualifications or experience, educational qualifications and internal review of an assessment for the purposes of subregulation 5.40(1) of the Regulations.

2.         SPECIFY, for the purposes of paragraph 5.40(1)(a), the following fees payable for       applications for assessments of a person’s occupational qualifications or experience   (or both):

(a) for applications for assessments where the Relevant Assessing Authority is Trades Recognition Australia within the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations and the standards set by Trades Recognition Australia under subregulation 2.26B(2) of the Regulations require one of the following assessments, the fee specified for the relevant assessment is payable:

(i)         Provisional Skills Assessment: AUD300

(ii)        Job Ready Employment Assessment: AUD500

(iii)        Job Ready Workplace Assessment: AUD2,000
            (iv)       Job Ready Final Assessment for the purpose of the Job Ready    Program: AUD150.

(b)        in any other case: AUD300.

3. SPECIFY, for the purposes of paragraph 5.40(1)(b), AUD300 as the fee payable for an application for an assessment of a person’s educational qualifications by Trades Recognition Australia within the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations and the standards set by Trades Recognition Australia under subregulation 2.26B(2) of the Regulations.

4.         SPECIFY, for the purposes of paragraph 5.40(1)(c), AUD300 as the fee payable for an           application for internal review of an assessment by the Department of Education,          Employment and Workplace Relations.

This Instrument, number IMMI 10/052, commences on 17 November 2010.

Dated 9 November 2010

CHRIS BOWEN

Minister for Immigration and Citizenship

[NOTE 1:   Subregulation 5.40(1) provides that a fee payable to an Agency within the meaning of the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997 for an application for assessment of a person’s occupation qualifications or experience (or both), an application for assessment of a person’s education qualifications, and an application for internal review of an assessment, is the fee specified by the Minister in an instrument in writing for this regulation.

NOTE 2:   Subregulation 2.26B(1) provides that if the person or body has been approved in writing as the relevant assessing authority for the occupation by the Education Minister or the Employment Minister, the Minister may, by an instrument in writing , specify a person or body as the relevant assessing authority for (a) a skilled occupation; and
(b) one or more countries; for the purposes of an application for a skills assessment made by a resident of one of those countries.

NOTE 3:   Subregulation 2.26B(2) provides the standard against which the skills of a person are assessed by a relevant assessing authority for (a) skilled occupation must be the standards set by the relevant assessing authority for the skilled occupation.]