Commonwealth Numbered Acts

MIGRATION LAWS AMENDMENT ACT (No. 2) 1992 No. 176, 1992 - SECT 15

15.(1) After section 181 of the Principal Act the following section is
inserted: Regulations about visa criteria

"182. To avoid doubt, regulations for the purpose of prescribing a criterion
for visas, or entry permits, in a class may provide that the Minister, when
required to decide whether an applicant for a visa, or entry permit, in the
class satisfies the criterion:

   (a)  is to get a specified person or organisation, or a person or
        organisation in a specified class, to:

        (i)    give an opinion on a specified matter; or

        (ii)   make an assessment of a specified matter; or

        (iii)  make a finding about a specified matter; or

        (iv)   make a decision about a specified matter; and

   (b)  is:

        (i)    to have regard to that opinion, assessment, finding or decision
               in; or

        (ii)   to take that opinion, assessment, finding or decision to be
               correct for the purposes of; deciding whether the applicant
               satisfies the criterion.".

(2) Regulations purported to be made before the commencement of this section
that could have been made if the section inserted in the Principal Act by
subsection (1) had been in force are taken to have been validly made.