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Migration (Visa Pre‑application Process) Charge Amendment (Mobility Arrangements for Talented Early‑professionals Scheme) Regulations 2024

I, the Honourable Sam Mostyn AC, Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 7 November 2024

Sam Mostyn AC

Governor‑General

By Her Excellency’s Command

Tony Burke

Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs

1 Name

This instrument is the Migration (Visa Pre‑application Process) Charge Amendment (Mobility Arrangements for Talented Early‑professionals Scheme) Regulations 2024.

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.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1. The whole of this instrument	The later of: (a) the day after this instrument is registered; and (b) the day the Migration Amendment (Mobility Arrangements for Talented Early‑professionals Scheme) Regulations 2024 commences. However, the provisions do not commence at all if the event mentioned in paragraph (b) does not occur.	12 November 2024

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 the Migration (Visa Pre‑application Process) Charge Act 2023.

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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 (Visa Pre‑application Process) Charge Regulations 2024

1 At the end of Part 2

Add:

6B Amount of charge—Subclass 403 (Temporary Work (International Relations)) visa in the Mobility Arrangement for Talented Early‑professionals Scheme stream

The amount of charge payable for each registration of a person as a registered participant in a visa pre‑application process in relation to a Subclass 403 (Temporary Work (International Relations)) visa in the Mobility Arrangement for Talented Early‑professionals Scheme stream is $25.

Note: If the charge is not paid at the time of registration, the person is taken never to have been registered: see subsection 46C(22) of the Migration Act 1958.

2 At the end of Division 2 of Part 3

Add:

9 Application provision—Subclass 403 (Temporary Work (International Relations)) visa in the Mobility Arrangement for Talented Early‑professionals Scheme stream

Section 6B of this instrument applies in relation to registrations occurring on or after the commencement of that section.