# Regulations about visa criteria

> act-s505 — as in force on 2026-06-04 — C2026C00232 · Compilation No. 171 — https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2026C00232/latest/text

505 Regulations about visa criteria
               To avoid doubt, regulations for the purpose of prescribing a
               criterion for visas of a class may provide that the Minister, when
               required to decide whether an applicant for a visa of the class
               satisfies the criterion:
                 (a) is to get a specified person or organisation, or a person or
                      organisation in a specified class, to:
                        (i) give an opinion on a specified matter; or
                       (ii) make an assessment of a specified matter; or
                      (iii) make a finding about a specified matter; or
                      (iv) make a decision about a specified matter; and
                 (b) is:
                        (i) to have regard to that opinion, assessment, finding or
                            decision in; or
                       (ii) to take that opinion, assessment, finding or decision to
                            be correct for the purposes of;
                      deciding whether the applicant satisfies the criterion.