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Migration Agents Regulations 2026
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This item is authorised by the following title:
Migration Act 1958
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F2026L00118
25 February 2026
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Part 1—Preliminary
1 Name
2 Commencement
3 Authority
4 Definitions
5 Instrument specifying matters relating to CPD activities
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Part 2—Immigration assistance given by persons not registered
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Division 1—Assistance given by employers and their employees
6 Meaning of employer and employee
7 Specification of kinds of visas for this Division
8 Assistance given to migrating employees
9 Representations made on behalf of migrating employees
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Division 2—Assistance given by other persons
10 Assistance given by close family members
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Division 3—Infringement notices relating to giving of immigration assistance
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Subdivision A—Infringement notices
11 Purpose of this Subdivision
12 Appointment of infringement officers
13 When can an infringement notice be served?
14 What must an infringement notice contain?
15 Can the time for payment be extended?
16 What happens if the penalty is paid?
17 Can an infringement notice be withdrawn?
18 Refund of penalty if notice withdrawn
19 Can there be more than one infringement notice for the same offence?
20 Infringement notice not compulsory
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Subdivision B—Evidentiary certificates
21 Evidence
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Part 3—Registered Migration Agents
22 Relation by employment
23 Information on the Register of Migration Agents
24 Publication of names of former registered migration agents
25 Removal of disciplinary details from the Register of Migration Agents
26 Applications—publishing requirement
27 Time of registration application
28 Publication of notice of intention to apply for registration
29 Requirement to provide further information
30 Prescribed qualifications
31 Continuing professional development
32 Continuing professional development—lawyers who hold practising certificates
33 Prescribed professional indemnity insurance
34 Registration application—Australian permanent resident
35 Publication of statement about a caution, or the cancellation or suspension of registration
36 Requiring registered migration agents to give information or documents
37 Stay orders—prescribed supervisory requirements
38 Publication of statement about barring former agents from registration
39 Requiring former registered migration agents to give information or documents
40 Method of notification of giving of immigration assistance to visa applicants
41 Method of notification of giving of immigration assistance to review applicants
42 Statement of services
43 Guides
44 Disclosure of personal information by the Authority
45 Disclosure of personal information by the Secretary
46 Disclosure of personal information by the ART
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Part 4—Approval of CPD providers
47 Purpose of this Part
48 Application for approval as CPD provider
49 Withdrawal of application
50 Approval of CPD providers
51 Requirements to be approved as CPD provider
52 Conditions of approval as CPD provider
53 Period of approval as CPD provider
54 Automatic continuation of approval as CPD provider until application to be approved again is dealt with
55 Cancellation of approval as CPD provider
56 Delegation
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Part 5—Transitional provisions
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Division 1—Transitional provisions for the commencement of this instrument
57 Definitions
58 Things done under the Migration Agents Regulations 1998
59 Infringement notices
60 Relation by employment
61 Publication of notice of intention to apply for registration
62 Continuing professional development
63 Stay orders—prescribed supervisory requirements
64 Statement of services—new or ongoing immigration assistance
65 Statement of services—certain service agreements ended before commencement
66 Statement of services—acquisition of property
67 Statement of services—other immigration assistance
68 Disclosure of information