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The new regulations "clarify and enhance the statutory framework for the Minister to prescribe alternative requirements to the standard skilled nomination and visa criteria, in labour agreements"

The new regulations "clarify the Skills Assessment Minister’s powers regarding Assessing Authorities that deliver skills assessments"

The new regulations insert family violence provisions into Schedule 2 criteria for certain permanent visas and amends the Schedule 1 criteria for a primary applicant for certain visas

The new regulations "expand the cohort of non-citizens who would be eligible for grant of a Subclass 070 (Bridging (Removal Pending)) visa (BVR) with certain mandatory community protection-related conditions imposed on the visa"

The new instrument creates an additional caveat related to the hospitality, retail and services sector

The new instrument creates a new list of occupations for the purposes of the Core Skills stream of the Subclass 482 (Skills in Demand) visa

The purpose of this instrument is to specify, among other things, a different way of making a nomination application for subclass 186 visa

The purpose of the instrument is specify: the occupations in relation to applications for, and nominations of occupations relating to applications for, the Subclass 186 visa; circumstances in which a nomination for an occupation does not apply to a nominee; and the assessing authorities in relation to the occupations

For "regulations 2.72 and 2.73 and subregulation 5.19(5) of the Migration Regulations, ANZSCO is defined as meaning the Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, as in force on ..."

The new instrument amends or repeals some legislative instruments to support the implementation of the Subclass 482 (Skills in Demand) visa and related measures