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the relevant country.
SOFA forces member means a person who:
 (a) is, for the purposes of a Status of Forces Agreement between Australia and France, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, the Republic of the Philippines, Singapore, Turkey or the United States of America, a member of the armed forces of one of those countries; and
 (b) holds military identity documents and movement orders issued from an official source of the relevant country.
specialist skills income threshold means $135,000.
Note: This amount is indexed under regulation 5.42A.
special processing area has the meaning given by subregulation 5.41C(3).
special program sponsor means a person who:
 (a) is an approved work sponsor; and
 (b) is approved as a work sponsor in relation to the special program sponsor class by the Minister under subsection 140E(1) of the Act, on the basis of an application made before 19 November 2016.
special return criterion means a criterion set out in a clause of Schedule 5, and a reference to a special return criterion by number is a reference to the criterion set out in the clause so numbered in that Schedule.
specified Subclass 417 work means work that:
 (a) was carried out in one or more areas of Australia specified for the purposes of this definition by the Minister under regulation 1.15FAA; and
 (b) was of one or more kinds specified for the purposes of this definition by the Minister under regulation 1.15FAA.
specified Subclass 462 work means work that:
 (a) was carried out in one or more areas of Australia specified for the purposes of this definition by the Minister under regulation 1.15FA; and
 (b) was of one or more kinds specified for the purposes of this definition by the Minister under regulation 1.15FA.
sponsor has the meaning given by subregulation 1.20(1).
sponsorship means an undertaking of the kind referred to in regulation 1.20 to sponsor an applicant.
sponsorship end day, in relation to a nomination under subsection 140GB(1) of the Act, means the day on which the approval as a standard business sponsor of the person who made the nomination ceases.
standard business sponsor means a person who:
 (a) is an approved work sponsor; and
 (b) is approved as a work sponsor in relation to the standard business sponsor class by the Minister under subsection 140E(1) of the Act.
statutory function has the meaning given by subregulation 5.41C(3).
step‑child, in relation to a parent, means:
 (a) a person who is not the child of the parent but who is the child of the parent's current spouse or de facto partner; or
 (b) a person who is not the child of the parent but:
 (i) who is the child of the parent's former