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Migration Regulations 1994 - Specification of English Language Tests for General Skilled Migration - IMMI 09/073

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Commonwealth of Australia
 
Migration Regulations 1994
 
ENGLISH LANGUAGE TESTS FOR GENERAL SKILLED MIGRATION
(REGULATIONS 1.15C, 1.15D AND SCHEDULE 2, CLAUSES 485.215 and 487.215)
  
I, CHRIS EVANS, Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, acting under regulations 1.15C and 1.15D and clauses 485.215 and 487.215 of Schedule 2 to the Migration Regulations 1994 (‘the Regulations’):
 
1.      REVOKE instrument number IMMI 08/084 signed on 10 October 2008 specifying scores for certain passport holders and English tests for General Skilled Migration; AND
 
2.      SPECIFY a score of at least ‘B’ in each of the four components of an Occupational English Language test is a score of competent English for the purposes of sub-subparagraphs 1.15C(a)(ii)(A) and (B); AND
 
3.      SPECIFY a valid passport issued by the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Canada, New Zealand or Ireland, to a citizen of that country, as a passport for the purposes of paragraph 1.15C(b); AND
 
4.      SPECIFY a score of at least ‘B’ in each of the four components of an Occupational English Language test is a score of proficient English for the purposes of subparagraph 1.15D(b)(i) and (ii); AND
 
5.      SPECIFY International English Language Testing System and Occupational English Test as language tests for the purposes of paragraph 487.215(e) in Schedule 2 to the regulations.
 
 
 
 
This Instrument, IMMI 09/073, commences on 1 July 2009.
 
 Dated      25 June  2009
 
 
 
 
CHRIS EVANS
Minister for Immigration and Citizenship
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
[Note 1: Subparagraph 1.15C(a)(ii) of the Regulations relevantly provides that the Minister may specify in an instrument in writing a score and a language test to be satisfied for the purposes of regulation 1.15C (which relates to satisfaction of English competency in relation to an application for a General Skilled Migration visa).
Note 2: Paragraph 1.15C(b) of the Regulations provides that the Minister may specify a type of passport required to be held for the purposes of regulation 1.15C (which relates to satisfaction of English competency in relation to an application for a General Skilled Migration visa).
Note 3: Paragraph 1.15D(b) of the Regulations relevantly provides that the Minister may specify in an instrument in writing a score and a language test to be satisfied for the purposes of regulation 1.15D (which relates to satisfaction of English proficiency in relation to an application for a General Skilled Migration visa).
Note 4: Paragraph 487.215(e) provides that the Minister may specify in an instrument in writing a language test which the applicant has made arrangements to undergo for the purposes of the provision.]