Section 505 — Migration Act 1958 (Cth)

To avoid doubt, regulations for the purpose of prescribing a criterion for visas of a class may provide that the Minister, when required to decide whether an applicant for a visa of 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.

Related sections

• s 503D — Details of gazetted agency to be treated as protected information
• s 503E — Validation of decisions
• s 504 — Regulations
• s 506 — Regulations about passenger cards
• s 506A — Regulations may provide for infringement notices
• s 506B — Tax file numbers

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