If the standard business sponsor fails to satisfy a sponsorship obligation, the Minister may take one or more of the following actions:

• bar the sponsor, for a specified period, from sponsoring more people under the terms of one or more existing approvals as a sponsor for different kinds of visas
• bar the sponsor, for a specified period, from making future applications for approval as a sponsor in relation to one or more classes of sponsor
• cancel one or all of the sponsor’s existing approvals as a sponsor
• apply to a Court for a civil penalty order of up to $33 000 for a corporation and $6 600 for an individual for each failure
• issue an infringement notice of up to $6 600 for a body corporate and $1 320 for an individual for each failure
• require and take a security; or enforce a security already taken.

There are a number of other circumstances (besides failure to satisfy a sponsorship obligation) in which the Minister may take the administrative actions described in the first three dot points above:

• provision of false or misleading information to the Department of Immigration and Citizenship or the Migration Review Tribunal
• the sponsor no longer satisfies the criteria for approval as a standard business sponsor or for variation of that approval
• the sponsor has been found by a court or competent authority to have contravened a Commonwealth, State or Territory law
• a primary sponsored person is found to have contravened a law relating to the licensing, registration or membership required in order to work in the nominated occupation.