# Migration (LIN 18/170: Professional Year Programs) Instrument 2018

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Migration (LIN 18/170: Professional Year Programs) Instrument 2018
I, David Coleman, Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs, make the following instrument.
Dated 6/12/18
David Coleman
The Hon David Coleman MP
Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs
Contents
Part 1 – Preliminary
1  Name
2  Commencement
3  Authority
4  Definitions
5  Schedules
Part 2 – Professional year
6  Professional year programs
Schedule 1—Repeals
IMMI 12/029 - Professional Year Programs
Part 1 – Preliminary 
1  Name
•            This instrument is the Migration (LIN 18/170: Professional Year Programs) Instrument 2018.
•            This instrument may be cited as LIN 18/170.

2  Commencement
This instrument commences the day after registration on the Federal Register of Legislation.
3  Authority
This instrument is made under the definition of professional year in subregulation 2.26AC(6) of the Regulations.
4  Definitions
In this instrument:
Regulations means the Migrations Regulations 1994.
5  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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Part 2 – Professional year
6  Professional year programs
For the purposes of the definition of professional year in subregulation 2.26AC(6) of the Regulations, any of the following professional year programs are specified courses:
•       The Professional Year Program provided by the Australian Computer Society which is available to information technology graduates;
•       The Professional Year Program provided by Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand, the Certified Practising Accountants Australia and the Institute of Public Accounting which is available to accounting graduates;
•       The Professional Year Program provided by Engineers Australia which is available to engineering graduates.

Schedule 1—Repeals
IMMI 12/029 - Professional Year Programs
•                The whole of the instrument

Repeal the instrument.