Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01281:clause:1ab_542
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Provision Reference: sch 1AB cl 542
Character Range: 1336846–1339150

542       Pacific Australia Labour Mobility Scheme                                                                                                             To support a circular mobility program to provide workers from Pacific island countries and Timor‑Leste with the opportunity to take up temporary seasonal and non‑seasonal work opportunities in Australia, including by providing assistance to those workers, and their families, to support or otherwise enable those workers to do one or more of the following:
                                                                                                                                                               (a) deploy to Australia;
                                                                                                                                                               (b) participate in the program while in Australia;
                                                                                                                                                               (c) reintegrate into their home country.
                                                                                                                                                               This objective has the effect it would have if it were limited to measures:
                                                                                                                                                               (a) with respect to aliens (within the meaning of paragraph 51(xix) of the Constitution); or
                                                                                                                                                               (b) with respect to immigration or emigration; or
                                                                                                                                                               (c) with respect to external affairs (within the meaning of paragraph 51(xxix) of the Constitution); or
                                                                                                                                                               (d) with respect to Australia's relations with the islands of the Pacific.