# Notification obligations

> act-s312 — as in force on 2026-06-04 — C2026C00232 · Compilation No. 171 — https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2026C00232/latest/text

312 Notification obligations
          (1) A registered migration agent must notify the Migration Agents
              Registration Authority in writing within 14 days after any of the
              following events occurs:
                (a) he or she becomes bankrupt;
                (b) he or she applies to take the benefit of any law for the relief
                     of bankrupt or insolvent debtors;
                (c) he or she compounds with his or her creditors;
                (d) he or she makes an assignment of remuneration for the
                     benefit of his or her creditors;
                (e) he or she is convicted of an offence under a law of the
                     Commonwealth or of a State or Territory;
               (ea) if the agent paid the non-commercial application charge in
                     relation to the agent’s current period of registration—the
                     agent begins to give immigration assistance otherwise than
                     on a non-commercial basis during that period;
                 (f) he or she becomes an employee, or becomes the employee of
                     a new employer, and will give immigration assistance in that
                     capacity;
               (fa) he or she becomes a member of a partnership and will give
                     immigration assistance in that capacity;
                (g) if he or she is a member or an employee of a partnership and
                     gives immigration assistance in that capacity—a member of
                     the partnership becomes bankrupt;
                (h) if he or she is an executive officer or an employee of a
                     corporation and gives immigration assistance in that
                     capacity:
                       (i) a receiver of its property or part of its property is
                           appointed; or
                     (iii) it begins to be wound up.
               Penalty: 100 penalty units.









          (2) An offence against subsection (1) is an offence of strict liability.
               Note:      For strict liability, see section 6.1 of the Criminal Code.

          (3) The following terms used in paragraph (1)(ea) have the same
              meaning as in the Migration Agents Registration Application
              Charge Act 1997:
               (a) begins (in relation to immigration assistance given otherwise
                   than on a non-commercial basis);
               (b) non-commercial application charge;
               (c) non-commercial basis (in relation to the basis on which
                   immigration assistance is given).
          (4) A registered migration agent must notify the Migration Agents
              Registration Authority in writing within 28 days after the agent
              becomes:
               (a) a restricted legal practitioner; or
               (b) an unrestricted legal practitioner.
               Penalty: 100 penalty units.
          (5) An offence against subsection (4) is an offence of strict liability.
               Note:      For strict liability, see section 6.1 of the Criminal Code.