Migration (Specification of Occupations and Assessing Authorities—Subclass 186 Visa) Amendment Instrument (LIN 21/009) 2021

I, Alex Hawke, Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs, make the following instrument.

Dated 16 March 2021

Alex Hawke

Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Migration (LIN 19/049: Specification of Occupations and Assessing Authorities—Subclass 186 Visa) Instrument 2019

1  Name

  This instrument is the Migration (Specification of Occupations and Assessing Authorities—Subclass 186 Visa) Amendment Instrument (LIN 21/009) 2021.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument 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.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under paragraph 186.234(2)(a) of Schedule 2 to the Migration Regulations 1994.

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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Migration (LIN 19/049: Specification of Occupations and Assessing Authorities—Subclass 186 Visa) Instrument 2019

1  Subsection 7(1) (table item 1, column 3)

Omit “AIM”, substitute “IML”.

2  Subsection 7(1) (table item 2, column 3)

Omit “AIM”, substitute “IML”.

3  Subsection 7(1) (table item 4, column 3, paragraph (b))

Omit “AIM”, substitute “IML”.

4  Subsection 7(1) (table item 5, column 3)

Omit “TRA”, substitute “ACECQA”.

5  Subsection 7(1) (table item 96, column 3)

Omit “ANZPAC”, substitute “PodBA”.

6  Section 9 (after table item 2)

Insert:

7  Section 9 (table item 7)

Repeal the item.

8  Section 9 (table item 8, column 2)

Omit “Australian Institute of Medical Scientists”, substitute “Australian Institute of Medical and Clinical Scientists”.

9  Section 9 (table item 13)

Repeal the item.

10  Section 9 (after table item 27)

Insert:

11  Section 9 (after table item 31)

Insert:

12  At the end of Part 3

Add:

13  Amendments made by LIN 21/009

 (1) The amendments of this instrument made by Schedule 1 to the Migration (Specification of Occupations and Assessing Authorities—Subclass 186 Visa) Amendment Instrument (LIN 21/009) 2021 (the amending instrument) apply in relation to an application for a Subclass 186 (Employer Nomination Scheme) visa in the Direct Entry stream if the application is made on or after the day the amending instrument commences, whether the assessment for the purposes of paragraph 186.234(2)(a) of Schedule 2 to the Regulations occurs before, on or after that day.

 (2) For the purposes of paragraph 186.234(2)(a) of Schedule 2 to the Regulations, an assessing authority listed in column 2 of an item of the following table is also specified as an assessing authority for the occupation listed in column 1 of the item in relation to an application covered by subsection (1) if the assessment for the purposes of that paragraph occurred before the day the amending instrument commences.