Migration Regulations 1994 - Specification of Organisations That May Sponsor Short Stay Business Visitors - IMMI 08/037

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Migration Regulations 1994

ORGANISATIONS THAT MAY SPONSOR SHORT STAY BUSINESS VISITORS

(REGULATION 459.214(c))

  1. This Instrument is made under paragraph 459.214(c) of Schedule 2 to the Migration Regulations 1994 (‘the Regulations’).

 

2.                  Paragraph 459.214(c) of Schedule 2 of the Regulations provides that an applicant for a Sponsored Business Visitor (Short Stay) (Subclass 459) visa may be sponsored by an organisation specified in a Gazette Notice for the purposes of that paragraph.

 

3.                  Section 56 of the Legislative Instruments Act 2003 provides that, in certain circumstances, registration of a legislative instrument on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments replaces the requirement that a notice be published in the Gazette.

 

4.                  The purpose of the Instrument is to specify the organisations that may sponsor an applicant for a Sponsored Business Visitor (Short Stay) visa.

 

5.                  The Instrument operates to add PGS Australia Pty Ltd, Weatherford Australia, Precision Energy Services Pty Ltd Trading as Weatherford, Geokinetics (Australasia) Pty Ltd, Proteus Global Solutions Pty Ltd, Paladin Energy Ltd, African Enterprise, First Quantum Minerals (Australia) Pty Ltd, Sparrows Offshore Services Ltd and The ECN Group (Australia) to the list of organisations that may sponsor short stay business visitors to come to Australia to undertake genuine business-related activities.

 

6.                  The Instrument operates to also amend the specified name of Geoservices Pty Ltd to Geoservices Australasia Pty Ltd.


7.                   As this Instrument is likely to have a direct, or substantial indirect, effect on business, external consultations were previously undertaken with PGS Australia Pty Ltd, Weatherford Australia, Precision Energy Services Pty Ltd Trading as Weatherford, Geokinetics (Australiasia) Pty Ltd, Proteus Global Solutions Pty Ltd, Paladin Energy Ltd, African Enterprise, First Quantum Minerals (Australia) Pty Ltd, Sparrows Offshore Services Ltd and The ECN Group (Australia).

 

8.                   The Instrument, IMMI 08/037, commences on 9 August 2008.

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