Commonwealth of Australia
Migration Act 1958
Migration Regulations 1994
PUBLIC INTEREST CRITERIA – RISK FACTOR
I, PHILIP RUDDOCK, Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, acting under regulation 1.17 of the Migration Regulations 1994 ("the Regulations"):
(1) REVOKE all existing instruments specifying risk factor groups for the purposes of paragraph 4011(2)(b) of Schedule 4 to the Regulations; and
(2) SPECIFY, for the purposes of paragraph 4011(2)(b) of Schedule 4 to the Regulations, the classes of persons described in the Schedule to this notice, where each row of the Schedule is a separate item and each item is a separate class.
This notice has effect on and from 1 January 2001.
Dated 12 December 2000.
PHILIP RUDDOCK
Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs
[NOTES. (1) Regulation 1.17 of the Migration 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.
(2) Part 1 of Schedule 4 to the Regulations relates to public interest criteria. Clause 4011 provides for the circumstance where an applicant is affected by the risk factor specified in subclause 4011(2). Paragraph 4011(2)(b) of Schedule 4 provides that an applicant is affected by the risk factor, referred to in subclause 4011(1), if the applicant has all the characteristics of a class of persons specified by the Minister by Gazette Notice for the purposes of paragraph 4011(2)(b).
1. Afghanistan Female 60 years or older
2. Albania Female 20 years and older
3. Albania Male 20 years and older
4. Armenia Female 60 years or older
5. Bangladesh Female 20 years or older
6. Bangladesh Male 20 to 39 years inclusive
7. Bangladesh Male 60 years or older
8. Bosnia-Herzegovina Female 30 to 39 years inclusive
9. Bosnia-Herzegovina Female 50 years or older
10. Bosnia-Herzegovina Male 60 years or older
11. Brazil Female 20 to 39 years inclusive
12. Brazil Male 20 to 29 years inclusive
13. Burma (Myanmar) Female 20 years or older
14. Burma (Myanmar) Male 20 years or older
15. Cambodia, the Kingdom of Female 30 years or older
16. Cambodia, the Kingdom of Male 25 to 29 years inclusive
17. Cambodia, the Kingdom of Male 60 years or older
18. Chile Female 20 years or older
19. Chile Male 20 to 39 years inclusive
20. Chile Male 60 years or older
21. China, Peoples Republic of Female 50 years or older
22. China, Peoples Republic of Male 20 to 24 years inclusive
23. China, Peoples Republic of Male 60 years or older
24. Colombia Female 20 years or older
25. Colombia Male 20 to 49 years inclusive
26. Croatia Female 20 to 29 years inclusive
27. Croatia Female 50 years or older
28. Croatia Male 20 to 39 years inclusive
29. Croatia Male 60 years or older
30. Ecuador Female 20 to 24 years inclusive
31. Ecuador Female 30 to 49 years inclusive
32. Ecuador Female 60 years or older
33. Ecuador Male 30 to 39 years inclusive
34. Egypt, Arab Republic of Female 20 years or older
35. Egypt, Arab Republic of Male 20 to 49 years inclusive
36. Egypt, Arab Republic of Male 60 years or older
37. Ethiopia Female 60 years or older
38. Fiji Female 20 years or older
39. Fiji Male 20 to 29 years inclusive
40. Fiji Male 60 years or older
41. Fmr Yugo Rep of Macedonia Female 20 years or older
42. Fmr Yugo Rep of Macedonia Male 20 years or older
43. Greece Female 20 to 29 years inclusive
44. Greece Female 50 years or older
45. Greece Male 20 to 39 years inclusive
46. Greece Male 60 years or older
47. Hungary Female 20 to 39 years inclusive
48. Hungary Female 60 years or older
49. Hungary Male 20 to 39 years inclusive
50. Iran Female 30 years or older
51. Iran Male 25 years or older
52. Iraq Female 60 years or older
53. Israel Female 20 to 29 years inclusive
54. Israel Male 20 to 39 years inclusive
55. Jordan Female 30 to 39 years inclusive
56. Jordan Female 50 years or older
57. Jordan Male 25 to 39 years inclusive
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58. Jordan Male 60 years or older
59. Korea, Dem Peoples Rep Of Female 20 to 39 years inclusive
60. Korea, Dem Peoples Rep Of Male 25 to 39 years inclusive
61. Lao Peoples Democratic Rep Female 20 years or older
62. Lao Peoples Democratic Rep Male 20 to 24 years inclusive
63. Lao Peoples Democratic Rep Male 60 years or older
64. Lebanon Female 20 years or older
65. Lebanon Male 20 years or older
66. Lithuania Female 20 to 29 years inclusive
67. Lithuania Female 50 to 59 years inclusive
68. Lithuania Male 25 to 29 years inclusive
69. Mongolia Female 30 to 39 years inclusive
70. Nepal Female 30 to 59 years inclusive
71. Nepal Male 25 to 39 years inclusive
72. Pakistan Female 20 years or older
73. Pakistan Male 25 to 29 years inclusive
74. Pakistan Male 60 years or older
75. Peru Female 20 years or older
76. Peru Male 20 years or older
77. Philippines Female 20 years or older
78. Philippines Male 20 years or older
79. Poland Female 20 years or older
80. Poland Male 20 to 49 years inclusive
81. Poland Male 60 years or older
82. Romania Female 25 years or older
83. Romania Male 25 years or older
84. Russian Federation Female 20 years or older
85. Russian Federation Male 20 to 39 years inclusive
86. Samoa Female 20 years or older
87. Samoa Male 20 to 39 years inclusive
88. Samoa Male 50 years or older
89. Sri Lanka Female 20 to 29 years inclusive
90. Sri Lanka Female 50 years or older
91. Sri Lanka Male 20 to 29 years inclusive
92. Sri Lanka Male 60 years or older
93. Syria Female 40 years or older
94. Syria Male 25 to 39 years inclusive
95. Syria Male 50 years or older
96. Tonga Female 20 to 29 years inclusive
97. Tonga Female 60 years or older
98. Tonga Male 20 to 39 years inclusive
99. Tonga Male 60 years or older
100. Turkey Female 20 to 24 years inclusive
101. Turkey Female 30 years or older
102. Turkey Male 20 to 29 years inclusive
103. Turkey Male 50 years or older
104. Ukraine Female 25 years or older
105. Ukraine Male 20 years or older
106. Uruguay Female 20 to 24 years inclusive
107. Uruguay Female 50 years or older
108. Uruguay Male 20 to 49 years inclusive
109. Uruguay Male 60 years or older
110. Vietnam Female 20 years or older
111. Vietnam Male 20 years or older
112. Yugoslavia, Fed Republic of Female 30 years or older
113. Yugoslavia, Fed Republic of Male 20 years or older
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