Migration Amendment (Skills in Demand and Nil VAC) Instrument 2024
F2024L01615 — as made — Status: Repealed — Made/registered 2024-12-06 — https://www.legislation.gov.au/F2024L01615/latest/text

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Migration Amendment (Skills in Demand and Nil VAC) Instrument 2024
I, Karin Maier, delegate of the Minister, make the following instrument.
Dated  6 December 2024
Karin Maier
Assistant Secretary
Skilled Visas Branch
Immigration Programs Division
Department of Home Affairs
Contents
1  Name
2  Commencement
3  Authority
4  Schedules
Schedule 1—Amendments
Migration (IMMI 18/018: Visa Applications— Temporary Skill Shortage (Class GK)) Instrument 2018
Schedule 2—Repeals
Migration (Class of persons for Temporary Skill Shortage (Class GK) visa nil VAC Instrument (LIN 21/006) 2021
1  Name
  This instrument is the Migration Amendment (Skills in Demand and Nil VAC) Instrument 2024.
2  Commencement
  This instrument commences on the later of:
 (a) 7 December 2024; and
 (b) the day after it is registered.
3  Authority
  This instrument is made under subregulation 2.07(5) of the Migration Regulations 1994.
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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 (IMMI 18/018: Visa Applications— Temporary Skill Shortage (Class GK)) Instrument 2018
1  Section 1
Repeal the section, substitute:
1  Name
  This instrument is the Migration (IMMI 18/018: Visa Applications—Skills in Demand (Class GK)) Instrument 2018.
2  Section 5
Omit “(Temporary Skill Shortage)” (wherever occurring), substitute “(Skills in Demand)”.
3  Subparagraph 6(3)(b)(ii)
Omit “toe482.Manual.Lodgement@homeaffairs.gov.au”, substitute “to e482.Manual.Lodgement@homeaffairs.gov.au”.
4  After section 6
Insert:
7  Application of LIN 24/097
  The amendments of this instrument made by Schedule 1 to the Migration Amendment (Skills in Demand and Nil VAC) Instrument 2024 (LIN 24/097) apply in relation to an application for a visa made on or after the commencement of the Migration Amendment (2024 Measures No. 1) Regulations 2024.

Schedule 2—Repeals
Migration (Class of persons for Temporary Skill Shortage (Class GK) visa nil VAC Instrument (LIN 21/006) 2021
1  The whole of the instrument
Repeal the instrument.