ENGLISH COURSES FOR HOLDERS OF CERTAIN TEMPORARY VISAS

(SUBPARAGRAPH 4A(a)(ii))

 

I, CHRIS BOWEN, Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, acting under subparagraph 4A(a)(ii) of the Immigration (Education) Act 1971 (‘the Act’):

 

1. REVOKE Instrument number IMMI 10/058, signed on 8 December 2010, specifying temporary visas for the purposes of subparagraph 4A(a)(ii) of the Act; AND

 

2. SPECIFY, for the purposes of subparagraph 4A(a)(ii) of the Act, the following classes of temporary visas:

 

(a)                Business Skills (Provisional) (Class UR);

(b)               Business Skills (Provisional) (Class EB);

(c)                Interdependency (Provisional) (Class UG);

(d)               Partner (Provisional) (Class UF);

(e)                Partner (Temporary) (Class UK);

(f)                Resolution of Status (Temporary) (Class UH);

(g)               Skilled – Designated Area-sponsored (Provisional) (Class UZ);

(h)               Skilled – Independent Regional (Provisional) (Class UX);

(i)                 Skilled – Regional Sponsored (Subclass 475); and

(j)                 Skilled – Regional Sponsored (Subclass 487); and

(k)               Skilled – Regional Sponsored (Subclass 489).

 

This Instrument, IMMI 12/038, commences on 1 July 2012, immediately after the commencement of Migration Amendment Regulation (No. 2) 2012.

 

 

Dated                  12 June               2012

 

 

 

Chris Bowen

Minister for Immigration and Citizenship

 

 

 

[NOTE: Subparagraph 4A(a)(ii) of the Act provides that a person is eligible for English courses if he or she is in Australia and holds a temporary visa of a class specified in a legislative instrument made by the Minister.]