Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00115:clause:8_8578:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00115
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 8 cl 8578 (pt 1/2)
Character Range: 2458008–2460641

8578  The holder must notify Immigration of a change to any of the following within 14 days after the change occurs:
 (a) the holder's residential address;
 (b) an email address of the holder;
 (c) a phone number of the holder;
 (d) the holder's passport details;
 (e) the address of an employer of the holder;
 (f) the address of the location of a position in which the holder is employed.
8579 (1) If the visa is a Subclass 491 (Skilled Work Regional (Provisional)) visa, the holder, while in Australia, must live, work and study only in a part of Australia that was a designated regional area at the time the visa was granted.
 (2) If:
 (a) the visa is a Subclass 494 (Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional (Provisional)) visa; and
 (b) the holder is:
 (i) a person (the primary person) who satisfied the primary criteria for the grant of the visa; or
 (ii) a person who is a member of the family unit of a person (the primary person) who satisfied the primary criteria for the grant of a Subclass 494 (Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional (Provisional)) visa;
then, while in Australia during the regional residency period, the holder must live, work and study only in a part of Australia that was a designated regional area at the time the relevant nomination in relation to the primary person was made.
 (3) For the purposes of subclause (2), the relevant nomination in relation to the primary person is:
 (a) if the nomination (the first nomination) identified in the primary person's application is the first and only nomination that has been approved under subsection 140GB(2) of the Act in relation to the primary person for the purposes of the visa—the first nomination; or
 (b) if:
 (i) after the first nomination was approved, another nomination (a later nomination) has been approved under that subsection in relation to the primary person for the purposes of the visa; and
 (ii) the primary person has commenced work, as the holder of the visa, in the position associated with the occupation nominated by that later nomination;
  that later nomination.
 (4) If the relevant nomination in relation to the primary person is the first nomination, then, for the purposes of subclause (2), the regional residency period is the period that:
 (a) starts:
 (i) if the holder was in Australia at the time of grant—at that time; or
 (ii) otherwise—at the time the holder first enters Australia as the holder of the visa; and
 (b) ends:
 (i) if another nomination is approved under subsection 140GB(2) of the Act in relation to the primary person for the purposes of the visa—at the end of the day before the day on which the primary