(1) This instrument is the Migration (IMMI 17/018: Working Holiday Visa – Specified Work and Regional Australia) Instrument 2017.

(2) This instrument may be cited as IMMI 17/018.

2 Commencement

This instrument commences the day after it is registered on the Federal Register of Legislation.

3 Authority

This instrument is made under subitem 1225(5) of Schedule 1 to the Regulations.

4 Definitions

In this instrument:

Regulations means the Migration Regulations 1994.

5 Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Part 2—Regional Australia and Specified Work

6 Regional Australia

(1) For the purposes of subitem 1225(5) of Schedule 1 to the Regulations, regional Australia means a place specified in subsections (2) to (9).

(2) The following postcode areas in New South Wales are specified places:

(a) 2311 to 2312;

(b) 2328 to 2411;

(d) 2536 to 2551;

(e) 2575 to 2594;

(f) 2618 to 2739;

(g) 2787 to 2898.

(3) Norfolk Island is a specified place.

(4) The Northern Territory is a specified place.

(5) The following postcode areas in Queensland are specified places:

(a) 4124 to 4125;

(b) 4133;

(d) 4270 to 4272;

(e) 4275;

(f) 4280;

(g) 4285;

(h) 4287;

(i) 4307 to 4499;

(j) 4510;

(k) 4512;

(l) 4515 to 4519;

(m) 4522 to 4899.

(6) The following postcode areas in Victoria are specified places:

(a) 3139;

(b) 3211 to 3334;

(d) 3430 to 3649;

(e) 3658 to 3749;

(f) 3753;

(g) 3756;

(h) 3758;

(i) 3762;

(j) 3764;

(k) 3778 to 3781;

(l) 3783;

(m) 3797;

(n) 3799;

(o) 3810 to 3909;

(p) 3921 to 3925;

(q) 3945 to 3974;

(r) 3979;

(s) 3981 to 3996.

(7) The following postcode areas in Western Australia are specified places:

(a) 6041 to 6044;

(b) 6055 to 6056;

(d) 6076;

(e) 6083 to 6084;

(f) 6111;

(g) 6121 to 6126;

(h) 6200 to 6799.

(8) South Australia is a specified place.

(9) Tasmania is a specified place.

Postcodes inclusive

(10) Where subsections (2) to (9) specify postcode areas by using a number range, all postcode areas in that number range are specified places.

Example: “6041 to 6044” means postcodes 6041, 6042, 6043 and 6044.

Postcodes cross borders

(11) Where a postcode area that is specified in this section crosses a State or Territory border, the whole of the postcode area is a specified place.

Example: Postcode area 4377 covers areas in Queensland and New South Wales. The parts of postcode area 4377 in both Queensland and New South Wales are specified places.

7 Specified work

(1) For the purposes of subitem 1225(5) of Schedule 1 to the Regulations, specified work means work of a kind specified in subsections (2) to (6).

(2) Plant and animal cultivation:

(a) the harvesting and/or packing of fruit and vegetable crops;

(b) pruning or trimming vines and trees;

(d) cultivating or propagating plants, fungi or their products or parts;

(e) immediate processing of plant products;

(f) maintaining animals for the purposes of selling them or their bodily produce, including natural increase;

(g) immediate processing of animal products including shearing, butchery, packing and tanning;

(h) manufacturing dairy produce from raw material.

(3) Fishing and pearling:

(a) conducting operations relating directly to taking or catching fish and other aquatic species;

(b) conducting operations relating directly to taking or culturing pearls or pearl shell.

(4) Tree farming and felling:

(a) planting or tending trees in a plantation or forest that are intended to be felled;

(b) felling trees in a plantation or forest;

(c) 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 any other place from which they are to be transported to the place where they are to be milled or processed.

(5) Mining:

(a) coal mining;

(b) oil and gas extraction;

(d) construction material mining;

(e) other non-metallic mineral mining and quarrying;

(f) exploration;

(g) mining support services.

(6) Construction:

(a) residential building construction;

(b) non-residential building construction;

(d) land development and site preparation services;

(e) building structure services;

(f) building installation services;

(g) building completion services;

(h) other construction services.

Schedule 1—Repeals

Working Holiday Visa – Definitions of Specified Work and Regional Australia 2016/087

1 The whole of the instrument

Repeal the instrument.