Migration Agents Regulations 1998 - Specification Of Prescribed Exams for Applicants for Registration as a Migration Agent - IMMI 06/057

PRESCRIBED EXAMS FOR APPLICANTS FOR REGISTRATION AS A MIGRATION AGENT

 (REGULATION 5(1)(c))

I, ANDREW ROBB, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, acting under paragraph 5(1)(c) of the Migration Agents Regulations 1998 ("the Regulations"):

1. REVOKE the Instrument “Prescribed Exam Notice”, signed on 31 May 2006 by an authorised officer for the Migration Agents Registration Authority, that approves exams as prescribed exams for the purposes of paragraph 289A(c) of the Migration Act 1958 (‘the Act’); AND

2.                   SPECIFY the following exams as a prescribed exam for the purposes of paragraph 5(1)(c) of the Regulations:

(a)                The Migration Advice Professional Knowledge Entrance Examination; and

(b)               “The common assessment items relating to registration”, which form part of the Graduate Certificate in Australian Migration Law and Practice at The Australian National University, Griffith University, Murdoch University and Victoria University;

This Instrument, IMMI 06/057, commences on 1 October 2006.

Dated 29 September 2006   

ANDREW ROBB

Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs

[NOTE 1:   Regulation 5(1)(c) provides that the Minister may specify in an instrument in writing a prescribed exam for the purposes of paragraph 289A(c) of the Act.

NOTE 2:     Paragraph 289A(c) of the Act provides that if an applicant has never been registered or is applying to be registered more than 12 months after the end of his or her previous registration, the applicant must not be registered unless the Migration Agents Registration Authority is satisfied that the applicant has completed a prescribed course within the prescribed period and has passed a prescribed exam within the prescribed period.]