# Migration (LIN 19/212: Specification of Exempt Occupations) Instrument 2019

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Migration (LIN 19/212: Specification of Exempt Occupations) Instrument 2019
I, David Coleman, Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs, make the following instrument.
Dated 29 October 2019
David Coleman
David Coleman
Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs
Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1  Name
2  Commencement
3  Authority
4  Definitions
5  Schedule 1
Part 2—Exempt occupations
6  Specified occupations
Schedule 1—Repeals
Migration (IMMI 18/035: Specification of Exempt Occupations) Instrument 2018 (F2018L00287)
Part 1—Preliminary
1  Name
•            This instrument is the Migration (LIN 19/212: Specification of Exempt Occupations) Instrument 2019.
•            This instrument may be cited as LIN 19/212.

2  Commencement
The whole of this instrument commences at the same time as Schedule 2 to the Migration Amendment (New Skilled Regional Visas) Regulations 2019 commences.
3  Authority
This instrument is made under subregulations 2.72(13) and 2.72C(14) of the Regulations.
4  Definitions
In this instrument:
ANZSCO has the same meaning as in regulation 1.03 of the Regulations.
nec is short for ‘not elsewhere classified’.
Regulations means the Migration Regulations 1994.
5  Schedule 1
  The instrument that is specified in Schedule 1 to this instrument is repealed as set out in the applicable items in that Schedule.

Part 2—Exempt occupations
6  Specified occupations
 (1) For the purposes of subregulation 2.72(13) of the Regulations, an occupation listed in column 1 of an item of the table in subsection (3) (for which an ANZSCO code is listed in column 2 of the item) is specified for the purposes of the following provisions of the Regulations:
 (a) paragraphs 2.72(11)(c) and (12)(c);
 (b) subregulation 2.73(13);
 (c) paragraphs 2.73(14)(c) and 2.86(2A)(b);
 (d) subregulation 2.86(2AA);
 (e) paragraph 5.19(5)(g);
 (f) subregulation 5.19(7);
 (g) clauses 482.224 and 482.233 of Schedule 2;
 (h) paragraph 8607(3)(a) of Schedule 8.
 (2) For the purposes of subregulation 2.72C(14) of the Regulations, an occupation listed in column 1 of an item of the table in subsection (3) (for which an ANZSCO code is listed in column 2 of the item) is specified for the purposes of the following provisions of the Regulations:
 (a) paragraph 2.72C(13)(b);
 (b) subregulation 2.73B(11);
 (c) paragraphs 2.73B(12)(c), 2.86(2B)(b) and 2.86(2BA)(b);
 (d) clause 494.222 of Schedule 2;
 (e) paragraph 8608(3)(a) of Schedule 8.
 (3) For the purposes of subsections (1) and (2), the following is the table:
	Specified occupations

	Item
	Column 1
Occupation
	Column 2
ANZSCO Code

	1
	chief executive or managing director
	111111

	2
	corporate general manager
	111211

	3
	general medical practitioner
	253111

	4
	resident medical officer
	253112

	5
	anaesthetist
	253211

	6
	specialist physician (general medicine)
	253311

	7
	cardiologist
	253312

	8
	clinical haematologist
	253313

	9
	medical oncologist
	253314

	10
	endocrinologist
	253315

	11
	gastroenterologist
	253316

	12
	intensive care specialist
	253317

	13
	neurologist
	253318

	14
	paediatrician
	253321

	15
	renal medicine specialist
	253322

	16
	rheumatologist
	253323

	17
	thoracic medicine specialist
	253324

	18
	specialist physician (nec)
	253399

	19
	psychiatrist
	253411

	20
	surgeon (general)
	253511

	21
	cardiothoracic surgeon
	253512

	22
	neurosurgeon
	253513

	23
	orthopaedic surgeon
	253514

	24
	otorhinolaryngologist
	253515

	25
	paediatric surgeon
	253516

	26
	plastic and reconstructive surgeon
	253517

	27
	urologist
	253518

	28
	vascular surgeon
	253521

	29
	dermatologist
	253911

	30
	emergency medicine specialist
	253912

	31
	obstetrician and gynaecologist
	253913

	32
	ophthalmologist
	253914

	33
	pathologist
	253915

	34
	diagnostic and interventional radiologist
	253917

	35
	radiation oncologist
	253918

	36
	medical practitioners (nec)
	253999

Schedule 1—Repeals
Migration (IMMI 18/035: Specification of Exempt Occupations) Instrument 2018 (F2018L00287)
1  The whole of the instrument
Repeal the instrument.