Commonwealth of Australia
 
Migration Regulations 1994
 
FEES FOR ASSESSMENT OF QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
(Subregulation 5.40(1))
 
I, BRENDAN O’CONNOR, Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, acting under subregulation 5.40(1) of the Migration Regulations 1994 (‘the Regulations’):
 
1.                  REVOKE Instrument number IMMI 10/052 signed on 9 November 2010 specifying fees payable for the assessment of qualifications and experience for the purposes of subregulation 5.40(1) of the Regulations.
 
2.         SPECIFY, for the purposes of paragraphs 5.40(1)(a) and 5.40(1)(b), the following fees payable for applications for assessments of a person’s occupational qualifications or experience (or both) and/or educational qualifications:
 
(a)        for applications for assessments where the relevant Assessing Authority is Trades Recognition Australia within the Department of Industry, Innovation, Climate Change, Science, Research and Tertiary Education and the standards set by Trades Recognition Australia under subregulation 2.26B(2) of the Regulations require one of the following assessments, the fee specified for the relevant assessment is payable:
 
(i)         AUD1,000 for Migration Skills Assessment
(ii)        AUD600 for Migration Points Advice (based on a satisfactory Migration Skills Assessment outcome)
(iii)       AUD1,100 for Migration Points Advice (based on a satisfactory Skilled Worker Program Skills Assessment outcome)
(iv)       AUD300 for Job Ready Program Provisional Skills Assessment
(v)        AUD500 for Job Ready Program Employment Assessment
(vi)       AUD2,000 for Job Ready Program Workplace Assessment
(vii)      AUD150 for Job Ready Program Final Assessment.
 
3.         SPECIFY, for the purposes of paragraphs 5.40(1)(a) and 5.40(1)(b), AUD300 as the fee payable for an application for an assessment not specified in paragraph 2(a) of a person’s occupational qualifications or experience (or both) and/or educational qualifications by Trades Recognition Australia within the Department of Industry, Innovation, Climate Change, Science, Research and Tertiary Education and the standards set by Trades Recognition Australia under subregulation 2.26B(2) of the Regulations.
 
4.                  SPECIFY, for the purposes of paragraph 5.40(1)(c) the following fees payable for an application for internal review of an assessment:
(a)                AUD900 for Migration Skills Assessment
(b)                AUD300 for Migration Points Advice
(c)        AUD300 for Job Ready Program Provisional Skills Assessment
 
 
This Instrument, number IMMI 13/037, commences on 3 May 2013.
 
 
 
Dated April 23 2013
 
 
 
Brendan O’Connor
 
Minister for Immigration and Citizenship