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Migration (LIN 19/183: Arrangements for Working Holiday Visa Applications) Instrument 2019

I, Gaye Lalor, Delegate of the Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs, make the following instrument.

Dated 26 June 2019

 

Gaye Lalor

 

Gaye Lalor

Acting Senior Executive Service, Band 1, Immigration and Visa Services Division and Delegate of the Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs

 

 

Contents

Part 1—Preliminary

1  Name

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Definitions

5  Schedules

Part 2—Arrangements for Working Holiday Visa Applications

6  Working Holiday (Temporary) (Class TZ) visa applications

Part 3—Working Holiday Eligible Passports

7  Subclass 417 (Working Holiday) visa eligible passports

Part 4—Application provision

8  Application of this instrument

Schedule 1—Countries or regions, passport conditions and age requirements

Schedule 2—Amendments

Migration (LIN 18/173: Arrangements for Working Holiday Visa Applications) Instrument 2018 (F2018L01507)

 

Part 1—Preliminary

1  Name

(1) This instrument is the Migration (LIN 19/183: Arrangements for Working Holiday Visa Applications) Instrument 2019.

(2) This instrument may be cited as LIN 19/183.

2  Commencement

This instrument commences on 1 July 2019.

3  Authority

This instrument is made under the following provisions of the Regulations:

(a) subregulation 2.07(5);

(b) subitem 1225(5) of Schedule 1;

(c) subclause 417.211(2) of Schedule 2.

4  Definitions

In this instrument:

authorising email means an email authorising an applicant to make an application in a different place or a different manner.

Regulations means the Migration Regulations 1994.

5  Schedules

The instrument specified in Schedule 2 to this instrument is repealed as set out in that Schedule, and any item in Schedule 1 to this instrument has effect according to its terms.


Part 2—Arrangements for Working Holiday Visa Applications

6  Working Holiday (Temporary) (Class TZ) visa applications

Approved form

(1)           For the purposes of subitem 1225(1) of Schedule 1 to the Regulations, the specified approved form for making an application for a Working Holiday (Temporary) (Class TZ) visa is:

 (a) 1150 (Internet); or

 (b) if an officer of the Department has sent an authorising email to the applicant—1150.

Place and manner

(2)           For the purposes of subitem 1225(3) of Schedule 1 to the Regulations, the specified place and manner for making an application for a Working Holiday (Temporary) (Class TZ) visa is:

 (a) if an officer of the Department has sent an authorising email to the applicant:

 (i) the applicant must attach a copy of the authorising email to the  approved form mentioned in paragraph (1)(b); and

 (ii) the applicant must submit the application in accordance with the directions in the authorising email by the end of the next day after which the authorising email was sent (AEST or AEDST as applicable to the date on which the authorising email was sent); or

 (b) if paragraph (a) does not apply to the applicant—as an internet application.

 


Part 3—Working Holiday Eligible Passports

7  Subclass 417 (Working Holiday) visa eligible passports

(1)           For the purposes of subclause 417.211(2) of Schedule 2 to the Regulations, the following kind of working holiday eligible passport is specified:

 (a) the passport is issued by a country or region specified in an item in Column 1 of the table in Schedule 1; and

 (b) the passport satisfies the conditions specified for that item in Column 2 of that table.

(2) For the purposes of subparagraph 417.211(2)(b)(ii) of Schedule 2 to the Regulations, a younger age of an applicant from a country or a region specified in an item of Column 1 of the table in Schedule 1 is specified in Column 3 for that item.


Part 4—Application provision

8  Application of this instrument

(1)           This instrument applies in relation to an application for a Working Holiday (Temporary) (Class TZ) visa that is made on or after 1 July 2019.

(2)           Despite the repeal of Migration (LIN 18/173: Arrangements for Working Holiday Visa Applications) Instrument 2018 (F2018L01507) in Schedule 2, that instrument continues to apply in relation to an application for a Working Holiday (Temporary) (Class TZ) visa that is made but not finally determined before 1 July 2019.


Schedule 1Countries or regions, passport conditions and age requirements

Note:  Where no younger age is specified, subparagraph 417.211(2)(b)(i) of Schedule 2 to the Regulations applies.

 

Item

Column 1

Country or region

Column 2

Conditions

Column 3

Specified younger age  (if any)

1

Belgium

Passport must indicate that the applicant is a national of Belgium.

30

2

Canada

Passport must indicate that the applicant is a national of Canada.

 

3

Cyprus

Passport must indicate that the applicant is a national of Cyprus.

30

4

Denmark

Passport must indicate that the applicant is a national of Denmark.

30

5

Estonia

Passport must indicate that the applicant is a national of Estonia.

30

6

Finland

Passport must indicate that the applicant is a national of Finland.

30

7

France

Passport must indicate that the applicant is a national of France.

 

8

Germany

Passport must indicate that the applicant is a national of Germany.

30

9

Hong Kong - Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China

Nil.

30

10

Ireland

Passport must indicate that the applicant is a national of Ireland.

 

11

Italy

Passport must indicate that the applicant is a national of Italy.

30

12

Japan

Passport must indicate that the applicant is a national of Japan.

30

13

Malta

Passport must indicate that the applicant is a national of Malta.

30

14

Netherlands

Passport must indicate that the applicant is a national of the Netherlands.

30

15

Norway

Passport must indicate that the applicant is a national of Norway.

30

16

Republic of Korea

Passport must indicate that the applicant is a national of the Republic of Korea.

30

17

Sweden

Passport must indicate that the applicant is a national of Sweden.

30

18

Taiwan

Passport must not purport to be an official or diplomatic passport.

30

19

United Kingdom

Passport must indicate that the applicant’s nationality is British Citizen or British National (Overseas).

30


Schedule 2Amendments

Migration (LIN 18/173: Arrangements for Working Holiday Visa Applications) Instrument 2018 (F2018L01507)

1  The whole of the instrument

Repeal the instrument.