Migration Amendment (Training Visas—Sponsorship Requirements) Regulations 2026

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   5 March 2026

Sam Mostyn AC

Governor‑General

By Her Excellency’s Command

Tony Burke

Minister for Home Affairs

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Migration Regulations 1994

1  Name

  This instrument is the Migration Amendment (Training Visas—Sponsorship Requirements) Regulations 2026.

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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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  Subclause 1238(3) of Schedule 1 (table item 4)

Repeal the item, substitute:

2  Subclause 1238(3) of Schedule 1 (table item 5, column headed “Requirements”, paragraphs (a) and (b))

Repeal the paragraphs, substitute:

(a) the person must have nominated a program of occupational training in relation to the applicant under paragraph 140GB(1)(b) of the Act; and

(b) the nomination must have been approved under subsection 140GB(2) of the Act; and

(c) the approval must not have ceased under regulation 2.75A; and

(d) the application must identify the nomination

3  In the appropriate position in Schedule 13

Insert:

Part 160—Amendments made by the Migration Amendment (Training Visas—Sponsorship Requirements) Regulations 2026

16001  Operation of amendments

  The amendments made by Schedule 1 to the Migration Amendment (Training Visas—Sponsorship Requirements) Regulations 2026 apply in relation to an application for a visa made on or after the commencement of that Schedule.