2007 Notices of Legislation Changes
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Legislation change, by implementation date:
31 October 2007
17 October 2007
15 October 2007
1 October 2007
10 September 2007
1 September 2007
19 August 2007
1 July 2007
23 April 2007
1 January 2007
Effective 31 October 2007
Effective 17 October 2007
Effective 15 October 2007
- Values Statement Amendments to the Migration Regulations
- Alignment of regulations with family violence provisions in the Family Law Act 1975
- Public interest waiver for criteria in clauses 866.222A and 866.222B
- Permanent resident of Norfolk Island visas
- Transit visas
- Personal identifiers collected from persons in fisheries or environment detention
Effective 1 October 2007
- Amendment to Sponsorship and Nomination Criteria and Temporary Business (Long Stay) Subclass 457 visa Time of Decision Criteria
- Australian Citizenship Amendment (Citizenship Testing) Act 2007
- Australian Citizenship Amendment Regulations 2007
Effective 10 September 2007
- Contributory Parent Visa Amendments
- Amendment to Sponsorship, Nomination and Time of Decision criteria for Subclass 457 (Business (Long Stay)) visas
- Repeal of the Subclass 471 (Trade Skills Training) visa and sponsorships
Effective 1 September 2007
- General Skilled Migration Reforms
- Access to the Adult Migrant English Programme (AMEP) for holders of the Subclass 475 (Skilled – Regional Sponsored)(Class VF) or Subclass 487 (Skilled – Regional Sponsored)(Class VC) visa
Effective 19 August 2007
Effective 1 July 2007
- Australian Citizenship Act 2007 and the Australian Citizenship (Transitionals and Consequentials) Act 2007
- Australian Citizenship Regulations 2007
- Introduction of maritime crew visa
- Maritime crew visa Regulations
- Migration Amendment (Border Integrity) Act 2007
- Amendments to the Regulations to allow automated border processing
- Migration Amendment (Review Provisions) Act 2007
- Migration Amendment (Statutory Agency) Act 2007
- Annual Adjustment of Fees for Prescribed English Courses Effective 1 July 2007
- Annual Adjustment of Fees and Visa Application Charges Effective 1 July 2007
- Amendment to Sponsorship, Nomination and Time of Decision criteria for Subclass 457 (Business (Long Stay)) visas
- Amendment to Time of Decision Criteria for Subclass 457 (Business (Long Stay)) visas to require English language proficiency
- Amendments to Migration Regulations 1994 relating to conditions on Bridging visas for applicants for certain permanent skilled visas
- Regulation Amendments to the Work and Holiday Visa programme
- Visa application charges on Tourist (Class TR) visa and Temporary Business Entry (Class UC) (Subclass 456) visa. Studying on Subclass 676
- Amendments to the Regulations to allow the collection and use of personal identifiers
- New Migration (United Nations Security Council Resolutions) Regulations 2007
- Amendments to student visa condition 8202
- Removal of the change of provider student visa condition (8206) and related provisions from the Migration Regulations
- Amendments to the welfare arrangements criteria for under 18 year old students
- Minor amendment to section 137J of the Migration Act 1958
- Amendment to Minister's power to specify Relevant Assessing Authorities
Effective 23 April 2007
- Qualifying visas for Subclass 416 (Special Programme) and Subclass 442 (Occupational Trainee) visas
- Amendment to the health service provider in regulation 1.15AA
- Trade Skills Training visa and Bridging visa E
- Changes to include the Republic of the Philippines in the definition of SOFA countries
- Amendments to guest of government definition
Effective 1 January 2007