Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A00721:clause:1_6a
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A00721
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 6A
Character Range: 4682–5737

6A  Certain prescribed persons in Australia to be treated as eligible persons etc.

 (1) The regulations may provide that a person who:
 (a) holds a prescribed kind of temporary visa; or
 (b) holds a prescribed kind of temporary visa and is a member of a class of persons prescribed for the purposes of this section;
is, subject to the regulations, to be treated as an eligible person for the purposes of this Act while he or she is in Australia.

 (2) Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), the regulations may provide for all or any of the following:
 (a) the periods within which a person is to be treated as an eligible person;
 (b) the circumstances in which a person is to be treated as an eligible person;
 (c) the professional services in relation to which the person is to be treated as an eligible person;
 (d) the professional services in relation to which the person is not to be treated as an eligible person.

[Minister's second reading speech made in—
House of Representatives on 7 June 2000
Senate on 27 June 2000]

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