Migration Amendment (Combatting Migrant Exploitation) Act 2026
No. 39, 2026
An Act to amend the Migration Act 1958, and for related purposes
Contents
1 Short title
2 Commencement
3 Schedules
Schedule 1—Amendments
Migration Act 1958
Migration Amendment (Combatting Migrant Exploitation) Act 2026
No. 39, 2026
An Act to amend the Migration Act 1958, and for related purposes
[Assented to 8 April 2026]
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
1 Short title
This Act is the Migration Amendment (Combatting Migrant Exploitation) Act 2026.
2 Commencement
(1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.
Commencement information | ||
Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
Provisions | Commencement | Date/Details |
1. The whole of this Act | A single day to be fixed by Proclamation. However, if the provisions do not commence within the period of 6 months beginning on the day this Act receives the Royal Assent, they commence on the day after the end of that period. |
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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.
(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.
3 Schedules
Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.
Schedule 1—Amendments
Migration Act 1958
1 Subsection 5(1)
Insert:
ABN has the meaning given by the A New Tax System (Australian Business Number) Act 1999.
2 At the end of Subdivision BA of Division 3A of Part 2
Add:
140GD Publishing information about approved work sponsors
(1) The Secretary may publish on the Department’s website information (including personal information) that:
(a) relates to an approved work sponsor; and
(b) is prescribed by regulations made for the purposes of this paragraph.
Note: This subsection constitutes an authorisation for the purposes of the Privacy Act 1988.
(2) Without limiting paragraph (1)(b), the regulations may prescribe the following information:
(a) the kind of approved work sponsor;
(b) the name of the approved work sponsor;
(c) the approved work sponsor’s ABN;
(d) the postcode (if any) associated with the approved work sponsor’s ABN;
(e) the number of nominations made by the approved work sponsor under subsection 140GB(1);
(f) the kinds of occupations covered by nominations made by the approved work sponsor under subsection 140GB(1).
(3) The regulations must not prescribe information that is a personal identifier.
(4) The regulations may prescribe circumstances in which the Secretary must not publish information under subsection (1).
[Minister’s second reading speech made in—
House of Representatives on 6 November 2025
Senate on 27 November 2025]
(99/25)