Migration Amendment (Substituted Subclass 600 Visa Exemptions) Regulations 2025

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     6 March 2025

Sam Mostyn AC

Governor‑General

By Her Excellency’s Command

Tony Burke

Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Migration Regulations 1994

1  Name

  This instrument is the Migration Amendment (Substituted Subclass 600 Visa Exemptions) Regulations 2025.

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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 the Migration Act 1958.

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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 Regulations 1994

1  Paragraph 1124A(3)(bc) of Schedule 1

Repeal the paragraph, substitute:

 (bc) An applicant seeking to satisfy the primary criteria must be:

 (i) an aged parent; or

 (ii) the holder of a substituted Subclass 600 visa at the time of application.

2  Paragraph 1130A(3)(cb) of Schedule 1

Repeal the paragraph, substitute:

 (cb) An applicant seeking to satisfy the primary criteria must be:

 (i) an aged parent; or

 (ii) the holder of a substituted Subclass 600 visa at the time of application.

3  Paragraph 1221A(3)(cb) of Schedule 1

Repeal the paragraph, substitute:

 (cb) An applicant seeking to satisfy the primary criteria must be:

 (i) an aged parent; or

 (ii) the holder of a substituted Subclass 600 visa at the time of application.

4  In the appropriate position in Schedule 13

Insert:

Part 152—Amendments made by the Migration Amendment (Substituted Subclass 600 Visa Exemptions) Regulations 2025

15201  Operation of amendments

  The amendments of these Regulations made by Schedule 1 to the Migration Amendment (Substituted Subclass 600 Visa Exemptions) Regulations 2025 apply in relation to an application for a visa made on or after the commencement of that Schedule.